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1 online resource (547 p.) |
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Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Preliminary Observations -- Contents -- Some Acronyms Used in Writings on Human Rights and Other Used in This Study -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction -- References -- Part I -- Ethics And Human Rights -- Chapter 2 -- Overview of Ethical Thought -- 2.1 Ethics -- 2.2 Metaethics -- 2.3 Normative Ethics -- 2.4 Ethical Epistemology -- References -- Chapter 3 -- Historical and Theoretical Rising of Human Rights and Their International Codification and Protection -- 3.1 Natural Law and Natural Rights -- 3.2 First Declarations and the Constitutionalization of Human Rights |
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3.3 Internationalization and Codification of Human Rights -- 3.3.1 Beginnings -- 3.3.2 Advent of the United Nations (1941-1945) -- 3.3.3 United Nations Charter and Human Rights (1945) -- 3.3.4 Commission on Human Rights (1946) -- 3.3.5 Drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1947-1948) -- 3.3.6 Drafting of the International Covenants on Human Rights (1949-1966) -- 3.3.7 Other Core Human Rights Treaties -- 3.3.8 New Human Rights -- 3.4 Human Rights Protection -- 3.4.1 Universal Level -- 3.4.2 Regional Level -- 3.4.3 National Level -- 3.4.4 Case Law -- 3.4.5 NGOs -- References |
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Part II -- Human Rights: Common Ethics of Humankind -- Chapter 4 -- Ethics of Recognition -- 4.1 Terminological and Conceptual Remarks -- 4.2 The Ethical Significance of Human Rights -- 4.3 The Foundational Question -- 4.4 Stakes of Recognition -- 4.5 Legal Recognition -- References -- Chapter 5 -- Human Dignity Principle -- 5.1 Conceptual Origins -- 5.2 The Kantian Moment -- 5.3 Juridification -- 5.3.1 International Human Rights Law -- 5.3.2 Constitutional Law -- 5.4 Case Law -- 5.4.1 Dignity and Freedom of Speech -- 5.4.2 Dignity and Privacy -- 5.4.3 Dignity and Sexuality |
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5.4.4 Dignity and Abortion -- 5.4.5 Dignity and Corporal Punishment -- 5.4.6 Dignity and the Treatment of Prisoners -- 5.4.7 Dignity and the Death Penalty -- 5.4.8 Dignity of Life -- 5.4.9 Dignity in Death -- 5.5 Some Conclusions -- 5.5.1 Dignity is a Term with Manifold Uses -- 5.5.2 Human Dignity is a Right and a Principle -- 5.5.3 Human Dignity is Multidimensional -- 5.5.4 Human Dignity is Violable, Vulnerable and Variable -- 5.6 An Account of Human Worth -- 5.6.1 Human Worth Consists in the Perfectibility of the Human Species that Demands the Perfecting of Human Beings |
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5.6.2 The Perfectibility of the Human Species is Rooted in its Semiotic Nature that is the Source of Human Beings' Aptitude to the Liberty of Rationality -- 5.6.3 The Perfecting of Human Beings Should Consist in the Cultivation of Their Semiotic Seeds that Require Human Rights' Protection and Provisions -- 5.6.4 Right to Education: Key for the Human Perfecting -- 5.6.5 Neurobiological Insights -- 5.7 Synthesis: Human Worth, Dignity and Rights -- References -- Chapter 6 -- Other Principles -- 6.1 Life and Liberty -- 6.2 Equality and Diversity -- 6.3 Non-discrimination |
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6.4 Tolerance and Solidarity |
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9783319035666 |
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