Human Rights: Concepts and Problems

ISBN-13: 9783643903082 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 228 str.

Ioanna Kucuradi

Opis

This collection of papers conceptualizes human rights as ethical principles, as well as premises for legislation and for legal reasoning. The book shows the significance of clear concepts for the protection of human rights in practice. Taking this conception of human rights as the point of departure, the book also discusses the specificities of law - of the state and of politics that hold the most promise under present-day conditions - for the protection of human rights and the prevention of their violation. (Series: Philosophy in International Context / Philosophie im internationalen Kontext - Vol. 7)

O autorze

Ioanna Kuçuradi is the founder and chair (1969 - 2003) of the Department of Philosophy and founder and director (1997 - 2005) of the Centre for Research and Application of the Philosophy of Human Rights at Hacettepe University (Ankara). Since 2006 she is member of the Department of Philosophy and director of the Human Rights Centre at Maltepe University (Istanbul). She holds a UNESCO Chair in Philosophy and Human Rights since 1998.