Human rights ethics
Subtitle: a rational approach
By: Clark Butler.
Series: Purdue human rights studies series
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: West Lafayette, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9781557534804
Subjects: Human rights -- Moral and ethical aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-284) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Steven V. Hicks; title: Preface; title: Equal human rights; title: Natural rights, human rights; title: Natural law-based human rights theories; title: Procedural human rights theories; title: Habermas's procedural justification of human rights; title: Human rights in the open society; title: A dialectical justification of human rights; title: The ethics of respect for human rights; title: The standard of dialogical rationality; title: Human rights ethics vs. the classical normative theories; title: Getting around the conflict of rights; title: The right to freedom of thought and its internationally declared conditions; title: The United Nations Universal Declaration; title: World governance, world government.