What is become of the rights of men? : are you the only men who have rights? ; moral contractarianism and the legitimation of universal human rights
In this article I advance an account of human rights as individual claims that can be justified within the conceptual framework of social contract theories. The contractarian approach at issue here aims, initially, at a justification of morality at large, and then at the specific domain of morality which contains human rights concepts. The contractarian approach to human rights has to deal with the problem of universality, i.e. how can human rights be ‘universal’? I deal with this problem by examining the relationship between moral dispositions and what I call ‘diffuse legal structure’.
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| Author: | Marcelo de Araujo |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-248833 |
| Series (Serial Number) | 25th IVR World Congress: Law, Science and Technology (025) |
| Publisher: | Goethe-Univ. |
| Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2012 |
| Publishing Institution: | Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main |
| Tag: | Jeremy Bentham; contractarianism; diffuse legal structure; human rights; justice; moral dispositions |
| Institutes: | Rechtswissenschaft |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 340 Recht |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Veröffentlichungsvertrag für Publikationen ohne Print on Demand |
