Human Rights: who bears the correlative positive duties? A defense of the thesis that we all do

Thesis

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 are prevented from performing specific actions by constraints they cannot modify.

Authors: Capriati, M

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-ozgm6povx
• Type of award: BPhil
• Level of award: Bachelors
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford