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"James Griffin's new book is a singular contribution to the philosophy of human rights.... The writing style is so clear and compelling that the book could easily be used in an introductory course in political philosophy or the philosophy of human rights. At the same time, Griffin's exposition of his view is so subtle and nuanced and the arguments so careful and cogent that the book is an essential work for specialists in the field. Finally, his book shows that philosophers have an important contribution to make to the conceptual and moral issues that are at the heart of much of the ongoing discourse on the nature and content of human rights."--William J. Talbott, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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What is a human right? How can we tell whether a proposed human right really is one? How do we establish the content of particular human rights, and how do we resolve conflicts between them? These are pressing questions for philosophers, political theorists, jurisprudents, international lawyers, and activists. James Griffin offers answers in his compelling new investigation of human rights.
The term "natural right", in its modern sense of an entitlement that a person has, first appeared in the late Middle Ages. When during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the theological content of the idea was abandoned in stages, nothing was put in its place. The secularized notion that we were left with at the end of the Enlightenment is still our notion today: a right that we have simply in virtue of being human. During the twentieth century international law has contributed to settling the question which rights are human rights, but its contribution has its limits.
The notion of a human right that we have inherited suffers from no small indeterminateness of sense. The term has been left with so few criteria for determining when it is used correctly that we often have a plainly inadequate grasp on what is at issue. Griffin takes on the task of showing the way towards a determinate concept of human rights, based on their relation to the human status that we all share. He works from certain paradigm cases, such as freedom of expression and freedom of worship, to more disputed cases such as welfare rights - for instance the idea of a human right to health. His goal is a substantive account of human rights - an account with enough content to tell us whether proposed rights really are rights. Griffin emphasizes the practical as well as theoretical urgency of this goal: as the United Nations recognized in 1948 with its Universal Declaration, the idea of human rights has considerable power to improve the lot of humanity around the world.
It is our job now - the job of this book - to influence and develop the unsettled discourse of human rights so as to complete the incomplete idea.
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"James Griffin's new book is a singular contribution to the philosophy of human rights.... The writing style is so clear and compelling that the book could easily be used in an introductory course in political philosophy or the philosophy of human rights. At the same time, Griffin's exposition of his view is so subtle and nuanced and the arguments so careful and cogent that the book is an essential work for specialists in the field. Finally, his book shows that philosophers have an important contribution to make to the conceptual and moral issues that are at the heart of much of the ongoing discourse on the nature and content of human rights."--William J. Talbott, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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What is a human right? How can we tell whether a proposed human right really is one? How do we establish the content of particular human rights, and how do we resolve conflicts between them? These are pressing questions for philosophers, political theorists, jurisprudents, international lawyers, and activists. James Griffin offers answers in his compelling new investigation of human rights.
The term "natural right", in its modern sense of an entitlement that a person has, first appeared in the late Middle Ages. When during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the theological content of the idea was abandoned in stages, nothing was put in its place. The secularized notion that we were left with at the end of the Enlightenment is still our notion today: a right that we have simply in virtue of being human. During the twentieth century international law has contributed to settling the question which rights are human rights, but its contribution has its limits.
The notion of a human right that we have inherited suffers from no small indeterminateness of sense. The term has been left with so few criteria for determining when it is used correctly that we often have a plainly inadequate grasp on what is at issue. Griffin takes on the task of showing the way towards a determinate concept of human rights, based on their relation to the human status that we all share. He works from certain paradigm cases, such as freedom of expression and freedom of worship, to more disputed cases such as welfare rights - for instance the idea of a human right to health. His goal is a substantive account of human rights - an account with enough content to tell us whether proposed rights really are rights. Griffin emphasizes the practical as well as theoretical urgency of this goal: as the United Nations recognized in 1948 with its Universal Declaration, the idea of human rights has considerable power to improve the lot of humanity around the world.
It is our job now - the job of this book - to influence and develop the unsettled discourse of human rights so as to complete the incomplete idea.
See all Editorial Reviews
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Use of the term 'human rights' began at the end of the eighteenth century (for example, in the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789) 'les droits de l'homme'), but it gained wide currency only in the middle of the twentieth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
rights require democracy, personhood account, permitted partiality, more pluralist account, normative agency, judgements about human interests, whole moral domain, normative agent, late foetus, bridging notion, personhood ground, early foetus, taste model, deep personal relations, prudential value, informational privacy, minor liberty, duties correlative, worthwhile life, minimum provision, encompassing group, substantive account Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United Nations, First Steps, Middle Ages, United States, Universal Declaration, Supreme Court, The Incomplete Idea, Whose Rights, First World, International Covenant, John Rawls, Isaiah Berlin, Robert Nozick, Categorical Imperative, The Taliban, John Locke, South Africa, Third World, Great Barrier Reef, Doctrine of Right Browse Sample Pages:
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Use of the term 'human rights' began at the end of the eighteenth century (for example, in the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789) 'les droits de l'homme'), but it gained wide currency only in the middle of the twentieth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
rights require democracy, personhood account, permitted partiality, more pluralist account, normative agency, judgements about human interests, whole moral domain, normative agent, late foetus, bridging notion, personhood ground, early foetus, taste model, deep personal relations, prudential value, informational privacy, minor liberty, duties correlative, worthwhile life, minimum provision, encompassing group, substantive account Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United Nations, First Steps, Middle Ages, United States, Universal Declaration, Supreme Court, The Incomplete Idea, Whose Rights, First World, International Covenant, John Rawls, Isaiah Berlin, Robert Nozick, Categorical Imperative, The Taliban, John Locke, South Africa, Third World, Great Barrier Reef, Doctrine of Right Browse Sample Pages:
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