Présentation de l'éditeur : "This book explains why we should stop thinking of freedom as limited to a right to be left alone. It explores how Kantian philosophy and Jewish thought instead give rise to a concept of positive freedom. At heart, freedom is inextricably linked to th…
"This book explains why we should stop thinking of freedom as limited to a right to be left alone, and explores how Kantian philosophy and Jewish thought instead give rise to a concept of positive freedom. At heart, positive freedom must be understood as inextricably linked to t…
"This book explains why we should stop thinking of freedom as limited to a right to be left alone, and explores how Kantian philosophy and Jewish thought instead give rise to a concept of positive freedom. At heart, positive freedom must be understood as inextricably linked to t…
This book explains why we should stop thinking of freedom as limited to a right to be left alone. It explores how Kantian philosophy and Jewish thought instead give rise to a concept of positive freedom. At heart, freedom is inextricably linked to the obligation to respect the a…
While some commentators consider appeals to human dignity to be little more than rhetoric and not worthy of serious consideration, this text give such appeals defensible meaning through an application of the moral theory of Alan Gewirth.
I. Making sense of 'human dignity' 1. Human dignity as empowerment 2. Human dignity and the new bioethics: Human dignity as constraint The Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine The Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights The new bioethics in Europe …
While some commentators consider appeals to human dignity to be little more than rhetoric and not worthy of serious consideration, this text give such appeals defensible meaning through an application of the moral theory of Alan Gewirth.
While some commentators consider appeals to human dignity to be little more than rhetoric and not worthy of serious consideration, this text give such appeals defensible meaning through an application of the moral theory of Alan Gewirth.
While some commentators consider appeals to human dignity to be little more than rhetoric and not worthy of serious consideration, the authors of this study give such appeals distinct and defensible meaning through an application of the moral theory of Alan Gewirth.
This text proposes a new agenda for research into a critical theory of human rights. Each chapter pursues three goals: to reconstruct modern philosophical theories that have contributed to our views on human rights; to highlight the importance of humanity and human dignity as a …