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Grounding human rights
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This paper examines the idea of human rights, and how they should be justified. It begins by reviewing Peter Jones’s claim that the purpose of human rights is to allow people from different cultural backgrounds to live together as equals, and suggests that this by itself provides too slender a basis. Instead it proposes that human rights should be grounded on human needs. Three difficulties with this proposal are considered. The first is the problem of whether needs are sufficiently objective...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Accepted manuscript, pdf, 210.5KB)
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(Accepted manuscript, pdf, 210.5KB)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1080/13698230.2012.699396
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- Publisher:
- Routledge Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy Journal website
- Volume:
- 15
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 407-427
- Publication date:
- 2012-08-07
- DOI:
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1743-8772
- ISSN:
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1369-8230
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- pubs:315337
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315337
- Deposit date:
- 2017-07-25
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- Copyright holder:
- Taylor and Francis
- Copyright date:
- 2012
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2012 Taylor and Francis. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Taylor and Francis] at: https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2012.699396
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