Human dignity and human rights

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This book offers a sophisticated and comprehensive defence of the view that human dignity is the moral heart of human rights, thus enabling us to defend human rights as the urgent ethical and political project that puts humanity first.

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Full title :Human dignity and human rights / Pablo Gilabert.

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Publication Date:2018.
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2018.

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Title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 13, 2018).

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xi, 349 pages)

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ISBN:9780191866104, 0191866105, 9780192562135, 0192562134
oclc:on1034610180
LC Classification:JC571
Dewey Decimal:323

Introduction -- Part I : Preliminary debates : the relations between human rights and political practice, feasibility, and power -- Humanist and political perspectives on human rights -- The feasibility of human rights -- Human rights and power -- Part II : The dignitarian approach -- Understanding human dignity in human rights -- Defending the significance of human dignity -- Dignity and solidaristic empowerment -- The dignitarian approach as a program -- Part III : Implications of the dignitarian approach -- Labor rights -- Political rights -- Minimalist versus expansive views of human rights : dignity and the arc of humanist justice.