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http://hdl.handle.net/1893/16760| Appears in Collections: | Law and Philosophy Book Chapters and Sections |
| Title: | Human Rights as Rights |
| Author(s): | Cruft, Rowan |
| Contact Email: | Rowan.Cruft@stir.ac.uk |
| Editor(s): | Ernst, G Heilinger, J-C |
| Citation: | Cruft R (2011) Human Rights as Rights. In: Ernst G & Heilinger J (eds.) The Philosophy of Human Rights: Contemporary Controversies. Berlin: de Gruyter, pp. 129-158. http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/178551 |
| Issue Date: | Nov-2011 |
| Date Deposited: | 27-Sep-2013 |
| Abstract: | This essay makes three suggestions: first, that it is attractive to conceive individualistic justification as one of the hallmarks - maybe even the one hallmark - of human rights; secondly, that combining this conception of human rights with standard worries about socioeconomic rights can tempt one to take the phrase "human rights" to refer to any individualistically justified weighty normative consideration (including considerations that are not rights); and thirdly, that reflections on the individuation of rights and rights' dynamic quality give us some reason to resist this temptation - though this reason is interestingly inconclusive. |
| Rights: | The publisher has granted permission for use of this work in this Repository. Published in The Philosophy of Human Rights: Contemporary Controversies by De Gruyter. The final publication is available at www.degruyter.com |
| URL: | http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/178551 |
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