Ontology and human rights
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11420119 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin Odei Ajei (0000-0002-7258-8021, University of Ghana, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 17-29 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South African Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0258-0136 • E-ISSN: 2073-4867 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02580136.2019.1565065 |
| OpenAlex | W2921982595 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 17 |
This paper examines the question of whether human rights are related to ontology. It examines perspectives on this question from human rights theories in the Western and African traditions of philosophy and defends the thesis that a good account of human rights requires an explicit ontology of the human, and that taking this seriously engenders divergent conclusions about what rights are. It then proceeds to claim that the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights adds substantive features to the International Bill of Human Rights, and that the Charter expresses Kwame Gyekye’s ontology of the human being
Charter · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Human rights · International human rights law · Kwame · Law and economics · Ontology · Political science · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · Anthropology · Law · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics
African philosophy
African religions & philosophy
Tradition and Modernity
The Heart of Human Rights
A Treatise of Human Nature
The End of Poverty
Giving Up the Goods
Subsistence Needs, Human Rights, and Imperfect Duties
The Human Right to Subsistence
Frontiers of Justice
What We Owe to Each Other
Human rights in a moderate communitarian political framework
The End of Poverty
The Demandingness of Scanlon’s Contractualism
Human Rights in Africa
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |