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Title
Ethics of human rights / A. Reis Monteiro.
Published
Cham ; New York : Springer, [2014]
Call Number
K3240 .M6627 2014
ISBN
9783319035659 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
3319035657 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9783319035666 (ebk.)
3319035657 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9783319035666 (ebk.)
Description
xviii, 540 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)862101592
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 503-506) and index.
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Table of Contents
1.
Introduction
1
References
14
pt. I
Ethics And Human Rights
2.
Overview of Ethical Thought
19
2.1.
Ethics
19
2.2.
Metaethics
22
2.3.
Normative Ethics
27
2.4.
Ethical Epistemology
33
References
40
3.
Historical and Theoretical Rising of Human Rights and Their International Codification and Protection
45
3.1.
Natural Law and Natural Rights
45
3.2.
First Declarations and the Constitutionalization of Human Rights
57
3.3.
Internationalization and Codification of Human Rights
68
3.3.1.
Beginnings
68
3.3.2.
Advent of the United Nations (1941-1945)
78
3.3.3.
United Nations Charter and Human Rights (1945)
81
3.3.4.
Commission on Human Rights (1946)
85
3.3.5.
Drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1947-1948)
87
3.3.6.
Drafting of the International Covenants on Human Rights (1949-1966)
103
3.3.7.
Other Core Human Rights Treaties
109
3.3.8.
New Human Rights
112
3.4.
Human Rights Protection
116
3.4.1.
Universal Level
116
3.4.2.
Regional Level
130
3.4.3.
National Level
135
3.4.4.
Case Law
143
3.4.5.
NGOs
148
References
152
pt. II
Human Rights: Common Ethics of Humankind
4.
Ethics of Recognition
161
4.1.
Terminological and Conceptual Remarks
161
4.2.
Ethical Significance of Human Rights
167
4.3.
Foundational Question
173
4.4.
Stakes of Recognition
185
4.5.
Legal Recognition
191
References
195
5.
Human Dignity Principle
199
5.1.
Conceptual Origins
199
5.2.
Kantian Moment
203
5.3.
Juridification
212
5.3.1.
International Human Rights Law
212
5.3.2.
Constitutional Law
218
5.4.
Case Law
222
5.4.1.
Dignity and Freedom of Speech
226
5.4.2.
Dignity and Privacy
228
5.4.3.
Dignity and Sexuality
229
5.4.4.
Dignity and Abortion
231
5.4.5.
Dignity and Corporal Punishment
233
5.4.6.
Dignity and the Treatment of Prisoners
237
5.4.7.
Dignity and the Death Penalty
239
5.4.8.
Dignity of Life
241
5.4.9.
Dignity in Death
243
5.5.
Some Conclusions
245
5.5.1.
Dignity is a Term with Manifold Uses
246
5.5.2.
Human Dignity is a Right and a Principle
249
5.5.3.
Human Dignity is Multidimensional
255
5.5.4.
Human Dignity is Violable, Vulnerable and Variable
272
5.6.
Account of Human Worth
277
5.6.1.
Human Worth Consists in the Perfectibility of the Human Species that Demands the Perfecting of Human Beings
279
5.6.2.
Perfectibility of the Human Species is Rooted in its Semiotic Nature that is the Source of Human Beings' Aptitude to the Liberty of Rationality
283
5.6.3.
Perfecting of Human Beings Should Consist in the Cultivation of Their Semiotic Seeds that Require Human Rights' Protection and Provisions
290
5.6.4.
Right to Education: Key for the Human Perfecting
295
5.6.5.
Neurobiological Insights
303
5.7.
Synthesis: Human Worth, Dignity and Rights
311
References
322
6.
Other Principles
327
6.1.
Life and Liberty
327
6.2.
Equality and Diversity
329
6.3.
Non-discrimination
332
6.4.
Tolerance and Solidarity
335
6.5.
Democracy, Development and Peace
337
6.6.
Common Responsibility of Humankind
346
References
350
pt. III
Human Rights Revolution
7.
Changed and Changing Legal Landscape
355
7.1.
Revolution
355
7.2.
Rebirth of International and Constitutional Law
358
7.3.
Refounding the Rule of Law and Rethinking Democracy
365
7.4.
New Law of Humanity?
375
References
385
8.
Answering Some Questions
389
8.1.
Are Human Rights Cultural Fruits Whose Colors and Flavors are Exclusively Western?
389
8.2.
Are Human Rights Individualistic, Neglecting the Corresponding Duties to Others and Community?
399
8.3.
Is the Ethical Universality of Human Rights Compatible with the Cultural Diversity of the World?
409
8.4.
Today, What About the Faith in Human Rights Proclaimed in the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
415
References
420
9.
Conclusion
423
References
438
Appendices
441
Glossary Relating to Human Rights
441
Chronology of Human Rights
485
Summary
494
Internet Resources
502
Selected Bibliography
503
Additional Bibliography Not Quoted in the Present Study
505
Index
507