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Human rights: Questions of aim and approach

Ethics 120 (4):741-760 (2010)

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Human Rights as Rights.Rowan Cruft - unknowndetails This essay makes three suggestions: first, that it is attractive to conceive individualistic justification as one of the hallmarks - maybe even the one hallmark - of human rights; secondly, that combining this conception of human rights with standard worries about socioeconomic rights can tempt one to take the phrase "human rights" to refer to any individualistically justified weighty normative consideration (including considerations that are not rights); and thirdly, that reflections on the individuation of rights and rights' dynamic quality give (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
What Is Special About Human Rights?Christian Barry & Nicholas Southwood - 2011 - Ethics and International Affairs 25 (3):369-83.details Despite the prevalence of human rights discourse, the very idea or concept of a human right remains obscure. In particular, it is unclear what is supposed to be special or distinctive about human rights. In this paper, we consider two recent attempts to answer this challenge, James Griffin’s “personhood account” and Charles Beitz’s “practice-based account”, and argue that neither is entirely satisfactory. We then conclude with a suggestion for what a more adequate account might look like – what we call (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 14 citations
Human Rights and the Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions.Cristina Lafont - 2013 - Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofía Política 2 (1).details In a recent article Allan Buchanan and Robert Keohane defend the view that one of the necessary conditions for the legitimacy of global governance institutions such as the WTO and the IMF is that they respect basic human rights. I certainly agree that setting the minimal threshold of moral acceptability any lower would be entirely unreasonable. But, unfortunately, the view that global governance institutions have human rights obligations is far from uncontroversial. These institutions themselves go to great lengths to deny (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations
Global Governance and Human Rights.Cristina Lafont - 2012 - Amsterdam: van Gorcum.details Download Export citation Bookmark 4 citations
Are human rights associative rights? The debate between humanist and political conceptions of human rights revisited.Cristina Lafont - 2022 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 25 (1):29-49.details Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
Constructivist and well-being based justifications of human rights. Rivals or allies?Christian Baatz - forthcoming - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.details Scholars disagree about the proper justification of human rights and which rights qualify as human rights. While some argue for a very limited set of human rights, others defend more comprehensive accounts. In this paper I suggest that a defence of a comprehensive set of human rights can be strengthened by combining constructivist deontological and well-being based teleological justifications. To this end, I discuss two prominent proponents of constructivism and the well-being approach: Rainer Forst and Simon Caney. Forst criticises teleological (...) Download Export citation Bookmark

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