Human Duties and the Limits of Human Rights Discourse

Lingua: inglese

Editore: Springer, Birkhäuser Nov 2017, 2017

3319669567 / 9783319669564

Serie: Libro 16 di 19 - Studies in Global Justice

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This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book demonstrates the importance of a duty-based approach to morality. The dominance of what has been labeled ¿rights talk¿ leads to the neglect of duties without corresponding rights (e.g., duties of virtue) and stimulates the proliferation of questionable human rights. Therefore, this book argues for a duty-based perspective on morality in order to, first, salvage duties of virtue, and, second, counter the trend of rights-proliferation by providing some conceptual clarity concerning rights and duties that will enable us to differentiate between genuine and spurious rights-claims.The argument for this duty-based perspective is made by examining two particularly contentious duties: duties to aid the global poor and civic duties. These two duties serve as case studies and are explored from the perspectives of political theory, jurisprudence and moral philosophy. The argument is made that both these duties can only be adequately defined and allocated if we adopt theperspective of duties, as the predominant perspective of rights either does not recognize them to be duties at all or else leaves their content and allocation indefinite.This renewed focus on duties does not wish to diminish the importance of rights. Rather, the duty-based perspective on morality will strengthen human rights discourse by distinguishing more strictly between genuine and inauthentic rights. Furthermore, a duty-based approach enriches our moral landscape by recognizing both duties of justice and duties of virtue. The latter duties are not less important or supererogatory, but function as indispensable complements to the duties prescribed by justice.In this perceptive and exceptionally lucid book, Eric Boot argues that a duty-focused approach to morality will remedy the shortcomings he finds in the standard accounts of human rights. The study tackles staple philosophical topics such as the contrasts between duties of virtue and duties ofjustice and imperfect and perfect obligations. But more importantly perhaps, it also confronts the practical question of what our human rights duties are and how we ought to act on them. Boot's book is a splendid example of how philosophy can engage and clarify real world problems.Kok-Chor Tan, Department of Philosophy, University of PennsylvaniaA lively and enjoyable defence of the importance of our having duties to fellow human beings in severe poverty. At a time when global justice has never been more urgent, this new book sheds much needed light.Thom Brooks, Professor of Law and Government and Head of Durham Law School, Durham UniversitySpringer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 196 pp. Englisch.

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Titolo
Human Duties and the Limits of Human Rights Discourse
Autore
Eric R. Boot
Editore
Springer, Birkhäuser Nov 2017
Anno di pubblicazione
2017
Condizione
Neu
Rilegatura
Buch
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
3319669567
ISBN 13
9783319669564
Peso dell'articolo
465 grammi
Dimensioni
241x160x17 mm
Serie
Libro 16 di 19: Studies in Global Justice

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