Thesis
Human Rights: who bears the correlative positive duties? A defense of the thesis that we all do
- Abstract:
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Starting from the assumption that human rights protect universal interests, I focus on duties correlative of human rights and, in particular, on positive duties- i.e. duties to perform an action. I address the issue of their scope: I assess, that is, who bears these duties. The goal of the dissertation is to defend what I call the 'Universal Scope Thesis', according to which everyone bears the positive duties correlative of each person’s human rights, except in cases in which agents a...
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Bibliographic Details
- Type of award:
- BPhil
- Level of award:
- Bachelors
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
Item Description
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- Deposit date:
- 2016-02-25
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- Copyright holder:
- capriati, m
- Copyright date:
- 2011
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