Actualizing Human Rights - Global Inequality, Future People, and Motivation

Informationen zum Autor Jos Philips is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Zusammenfassung This book argues that ultimately human rights can be actualized, in two senses. By answering important challenges to them, the real-world relevance of human rights can be brought out; and people worldwide can be motivated as needed for realizing human rights. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Two New Challenges to Human Rights and the Question of Motivation Part I: Preparing the Ground 2. Human Rights: A Conception 3. Common Challenges to Human Rights: The Relativist and the Political Pawns Challenge Part II: Novel Challenges to Human Rights 4. The Challenge of Global Inequality 5. The Challenge of Future People Part III: Getting to Realization 6. The Question of Motivation: Can People Be Motivated as Needed for Realizing Human Rights? 7. Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Jos Philips, Jos (Utrecht University Philips, Philips Jos
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9780367820381
• ISBN: 978-0-367-82038-1
• No. of pages: 142
• Series: Routledge Studies in Human Rights
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, Sociology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Philosophy, Society & culture: general, Social & political philosophy, Human rights, civil rights