1st Edition
Actualizing Human Rights Global Inequality, Future People, and Motivation
By Jos Philips
Copyright 2020
142 Pages
by
Routledge
142 Pages
by
Routledge
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.
Taking a perspective from moral and political philosophy, the book focuses on two challenges to human rights that have until now... Read more
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
Biography
Jos Philips is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
