Rights-based ethics offer a conceptual framework to address the complex ethical issues of our time. This volume combines systematic and historical perspectives on rights-based ethics with discussions of a broad range of topics in applied ethics to assess the achievements and limits of rights-based approaches.
Rights-based ethics offer a conceptual framework to address the complex ethical issues of our time. This volume combines systematic and historical perspectives on rights-based ethics with discussions of a broad range of topics in applied ethics to assess the achievements and limits of rights-based approaches.
The normative concepts of fundamental human rights and human dignity play an essential role in considerations about global justice and international politics. However, these concepts have not been taken up sufficiently in the standard approaches to normative ethics. This volume contends that rights-based approaches in ethics not only offer a theoretical framework to explain complex normative concepts but they can also offer answers to some of todays most complex moral questions. Its chapters are divided into three thematic sections. The first section addresses the conceptual and foundational questions of rights-based ethics. The second section offers historical and cultural perspectives on rights. Finally, the third section explores how rights-based ethics can address applied issues related to climate change, health systems, global supply chains, and the finance industry.
This volume will be of interest to scholars and graduate students working in ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of law, and the social sciences.
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"In the intensity of its examination of the thesis that agent rights form the essential ground of morality, and in the scope and design of a practical ethics based upon it, this expert and critical collection provides invaluable analyses of rights in the context of climate change policy, too big to fail banking, the crisis of health care, bioethical threats to freedom, and human rights abuses in corporate supply chains."
Stuart Toddington, University of Huddersfield, UK
"This is a remarkable text bringing together some of the best rights theorists at work today. In part it is a welcome continuation of the Gewirthean tradition in rights thinking. In part it is a radical attempt to ensure that rights theory speaks directly to contemporary problems and crises. This is an essential and powerful demonstration that human rights, as moral rights, contain the philosophical and practical resources to meet real problems in principled ways."
Stephen Riley, University of Leicester, UK
Part 1: Introduction Introduction: Rights-Based Ethics Outline of an
Approach Part 2: Conceptual and Foundational Questions
1. Why a Rights-Based
Ethics?
2. Human Dignity as Absolute Inner Value and Moral Status
3. Reason
and Moralities: The Prudential Foundations of Ethics in Alan Gewirths
Procedural Rationalism
4. Proving a Categorical Imperative by the Possibility
of Self-Contradiction: The Paradox of Method in a Critique of Practical
Reason
5. Conceptual Tools for the Analysis of Rights
6. The Problem of
Aggregation in a Rights-based Moral Theory
7. What Do I Morally Owe to
Myself? On the Moral Right to Freedom and Duties to Oneself in Alan Gewirths
Right-based Ethics Part 3: Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Rights
8.
Rights, Coercion and the Will of the People. On the Relationship between
Politics and Normativity in Marsilius of Padua
9. Do Immoralists Suffer a
Loss of Meaning in Life? A Focus on Gewirths Theory of Self-Fulfillment and
Metzs Fundamentality Theory Part 4: Rights in Contexts of Applied Ethics
10.
On a Freedom-Based Concept of Person and Its Bioethical Consequences
11.
Moral Rights as Criteria for Professional Nursing Care
12. How Should One
Respond to Climate Change? A Rights-Based Ethical Theorys Approach to the
Problem
13. Standard Threats and (Mandatory) Human Rights Due Diligence in
Global Supply Chains: On the Corporate Responsibility to Address Human Rights
Abuses Committed by Third Parties
14. Rights-Based Ethics: A Family Dispute
15. Balancing Rights While Protecting the Climate
16. Too Big to Fail Banks,
Private Credit Creation, and Systemic Risks: Challenges of a Modern Ethics of
Risk Part 5: Outlook
17. On the Foundations and Implications of Moral Rights
Marcus Düwell is professor of philosophy at Technical University Darmstadt, Germany. His research interests include foundational questions of moral and political philosophy, philosophical anthropology, bioethics, and climate ethics. His publications include the Cambridge Handbook on Human Dignity (2013) and Towards the Ethics of a Green Future (Routledge, 2018).
Johannes Graf Keyserlingk is a philosopher and social scientist who gained a Ph.D. at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany in 2017. His research interests are political philosophy, digital ethics, and economic ethics.
Philipp Richter is a professor of Philosophy at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. Since 2019 he has held the chair of Teaching Philosophy and Ethics at the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences. Richter has published books and papers on methods of teaching philosophy and on normative and applied ethics.
