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Rights-based ethics offer a conceptual framework to address the complex ethical issues of our time. This volume combines systematic and historical perspectives on rights-based ethics with discussions of a broad range of topics in applied ethics to assess the achievements and limits of rights-based approaches.
List of contents
Part 1: Introduction Introduction: Rights-Based Ethics - Outline of an Approach
Part 2: Conceptual and Foundational Questions 1. Why a Rights-Based Ethics? 2. Human Dignity as Absolute Inner Value and Moral Status 3. Reason and Moralities: The Prudential Foundations of Ethics in Alan Gewirth's Procedural Rationalism 4. Proving a Categorical Imperative by the Possibility of Self-Contradiction: The Paradox of Method in a Critique of Practical Reason 5. Conceptual Tools for the Analysis of Rights 6. The Problem of Aggregation in a Rights-based Moral Theory 7. What Do I Morally Owe to Myself? On the Moral Right to Freedom and Duties to Oneself in Alan Gewirth's Right-based Ethics
Part 3: Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Rights 8. Rights, Coercion and the Will of the People. On the Relationship between Politics and Normativity in Marsilius of Padua 9. Do Immoralists Suffer a Loss of Meaning in Life? A Focus on Gewirth's Theory of Self-Fulfillment and Metz's Fundamentality Theory
Part 4: Rights in Contexts of Applied Ethics 10. On a Freedom-Based Concept of Person and Its Bioethical Consequences 11. Moral Rights as Criteria for Professional Nursing Care 12. How Should One Respond to Climate Change? A Rights-Based Ethical Theory's Approach to the Problem 13. Standard Threats and (Mandatory) Human Rights Due Diligence in Global Supply Chains: On the Corporate Responsibility to Address Human Rights Abuses Committed by Third Parties 14. Rights-Based Ethics: A Family Dispute 15. Balancing Rights While Protecting the Climate 16. Too Big to Fail Banks, Private Credit Creation, and Systemic Risks: Challenges of a Modern Ethics of Risk
Part 5: Outlook 17. On the Foundations and Implications of Moral Rights
About the author
Marcus Düwell is professor of philosophy at Technical University Darmstadt, Germany. His research interests include foundational questions of moral and political philosophy, philosophical anthropology, bioethics, and climate ethics. His publications include the
Cambridge Handbook on Human Dignity (2013) and
Towards the Ethics of a Green Future (Routledge, 2018).
Johannes Graf Keyserlingk is a philosopher and social scientist who gained a Ph.D. at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany in 2017. His research interests are political philosophy, digital ethics, and economic ethics.
Philipp Richter is a professor of Philosophy at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. Since 2019 he has held the chair of Teaching Philosophy and Ethics at the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences. Richter has published books and papers on methods of teaching philosophy and on normative and applied ethics.
