Global basic rights


edited by Charles R. Beitz and Robert E. Goodin.
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
Utgitt
Oxford New York : Oxford University Press , 2009.
Omfang
1 online resource (267 p.). - 256 p.
Opplysninger
Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Basic Rights and Beyond; 2 On Rights and Institutions; 3 Another Turn of the Wheel?; 4 Are There Any Basic Rights?; 5 The Alleged Dichotomy Between Positive and Negative Rights and Duties; 6 Shue on Rights and Duties; 7 No Borders, No Bystanders: Developing Individual and Institutional Capacities for Global Moral Responsibility; 8 Global Power and Economic Justice; 9 Unthinking the Ticking Bomb; 10 Security as a Basic Right (After 9/11); 11 Human Rights, Responsibilities, and Climate Change; Index. - Politically, as well as philosophically, concerns with human rights have permeated many of the most important debates on social justice worldwide for fully a half-century. Henry Shue's 1980 book on Basic Rights proved to be a pioneering contribution to those debates, and one that continues to elicit both critical and constructive comment. Global Basic Rights brings together many of the most influential contemporary writers in political philosophy andinternational relations - Charles Beitz, Robert Goodin, Christian Reus-Smit, Andrew Hurrell, Judith Lichtenberg, Elizabeth Ashford, Thomas Pogge,
Emner
Sjanger
Dewey
323
ISBN
9780199570263

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