Griffin on Human Rights

This volume presents responses to the work of James Griffin, one of the most significant contributors to the contemporary debate over human rights. Leading moral and political philosophers engage with Griffin's views¿according to which human rights are best understood as protections of our agency and personhood¿and Griffin offers his own reply.

List of contents

• 1: Carl Wellman: Two Approaches to Human Rights


• 2: John Tasioulas: Taking the Rights out of Human Rights


• 3: David Reidy: When the Good Alone isn't Enough


• 4: Allen Buchanan: The Egalitarianism of Human Rights


• 5: Rowan Cruft: Human Rights, Human Agency and Respect: Extending Griffin's View


• 6: Roger Crisp: Griffin on Human Rights: Form and Substance


• 7: David Miller: Personhood versus Human Needs as Grounds for Human Rights


• 8: Brad Hooker: Griffin on Human Rights


• 9: James Nickel: Griffin on Human Rights to Liberty


• 10: James Griffin: Replies

About the author

Roger Crisp has taught philosophy at St Anne's College, Oxford, for over twenty-five years. He is the author of Reasons and the Good (OUP, 2006), co-editor of Well-Being and Morality: Essays in Honour of James Griffin (with Brad Hooker; Clarendon Press, 2000), and editor of The Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics (OUP, 2013).

Summary

This volume presents responses to the work of James Griffin, one of the most significant contributors to the contemporary debate over human rights. Leading moral and political philosophers engage with Griffin's views--according to which human rights are best understood as protections of our agency and personhood--and Griffin offers his own reply.

Product details

• Authors: Roger Crisp, Roger (St Anne''''s College Crisp
• Assisted by: Roger Crisp (Editor), Roger (St Anne's College Crisp (Editor), Crisp Roger (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.08.2014
• EAN: 9780199668731
• ISBN: 978-0-19-966873-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Human Rights, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Human rights, civil rights