Individual duty within a human rights discourse
By: Douglas Hodgson.
Series: Applied legal philosophy
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Human rights; Human rights -- Moral and ethical aspects; Duty
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-264) and index.
Table of contents: title: The historical development of the principle of duty and its contemporary philosophical sources; title: The taxonomy of duties; title: Religion, ethics and the principle of individual duty; title: Individual criminal responsibility under international law; title: The position of individual duty within the international and regional human rights system; title: Particular individual duties explicitly recognised under international and regional human rights law and by national law; title: Socialism and individual duty; title: Impoverished 'rights talk', the sociology of duty and the re-emergence of communitarianism; title: The enforcement of individual duties.