Book contents
- Moral and Political Conceptions of Human Rights
- Moral and Political Conceptions of Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Expanding the Debate on Moral and Political Approaches to the Philosophy of Human Rights
- Part I
- 1 Theory, Politics, and Practice
- 2 The Point of the Practice of Human Rights
- 3 Rawls’s Relational Conception of Human Rights
- 4 Theories of Human Rights
- 5 Mediating the Theory and Practice of Human Rights in Morality and Law
- 6 Kantian Human Rights or How the Individual Has Come to Matter in International Law
- Part II
- Index
- References
4 - Theories of Human Rights
Political or Orthodox – Why It Matters
from Part I
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 July 2017
Book contents
- Moral and Political Conceptions of Human Rights
- Moral and Political Conceptions of Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Expanding the Debate on Moral and Political Approaches to the Philosophy of Human Rights
- Part I
- 1 Theory, Politics, and Practice
- 2 The Point of the Practice of Human Rights
- 3 Rawls’s Relational Conception of Human Rights
- 4 Theories of Human Rights
- 5 Mediating the Theory and Practice of Human Rights in Morality and Law
- 6 Kantian Human Rights or How the Individual Has Come to Matter in International Law
- Part II
- Index
- References
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