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On human rights / James Griffin.

By: Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.Description: xiii, 339 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780199238781 (hbk.)
  • 0199238782 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323 GRI
Contents:
Introduction. - Pt. 1. An account of human rights. 1. Human rights: the incomplete idea. 2. First steps in an account of human rights. 3. When human rights conflict. 4. Whose rights? 5. My rights: but whose duties? 6. The metaphysics of human rights. 7. The relativity and ethnocentricity of human rights. - Pt. II. Highest-level humanrights. 8. Autonomy. 9. Liberty. 10. Welfare. - Pt. III. Applications. 11. Human rights: discrepancies between philosophy and international Law. 12. A right to life, a right to death. 13. Privacy. 14. Do human rights require democracy? 15. Group rights. - Notes. - Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-329) and index.

Introduction. - Pt. 1. An account of human rights. 1. Human rights: the incomplete idea. 2. First steps in an account of human rights. 3. When human rights conflict. 4. Whose rights? 5. My rights: but whose duties? 6. The metaphysics of human rights. 7. The relativity and ethnocentricity of human rights. - Pt. II. Highest-level humanrights. 8. Autonomy. 9. Liberty. 10. Welfare. - Pt. III. Applications. 11. Human rights: discrepancies between philosophy and international Law. 12. A right to life, a right to death. 13. Privacy. 14. Do human rights require democracy? 15. Group rights. - Notes. - Index.