Being Social
The Philosophy of Social Human Rights
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19984460 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexandra Couto (corresponding author) |
| Editors | Kimberley Brownlee (0000-0003-3933-0122, Research Chair in Ethics and Political & Social Philosophy, University of British Columbia), David Jenkins (0000-0002-7633-7027, Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Otago), Adam Neal (0000-0002-7709-4020, Leverhulme Trust-funded doctoral student in Philosophy, University of Warwick) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-06 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Being Social (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780198871194.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4306861761 |
| Open Library | OL38341381M |
| ISBN | 9780198871194 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 9 |
Human rights capture what people need to live minimally decent lives. Recognized dimensions of this minimum include physical security, due process, political participation, and freedom of movement, speech, and belief, as well as—more controversially for some—subsistence, shelter, health, education, culture, and community. Far less attention has been paid to the interpersonal, social dimensions of a minimally decent life, including our basic needs for decent human contact and acknowledgement, for interaction and adequate social inclusion, and for relationship, intimacy, and shared ways of living, as well as our competing interests in solitude and associative freedom. This pioneering collection of original essays aims to remedy the neglect of social needs and rights in human rights theory and practice by exploring the social dimensions of the human-rights minimum. The essays subject both enumerated social human rights and proposed social human rights to philosophical scrutiny, and probe the conceptual, normative, and practical implications of taking social human rights seriously. The contributors to this volume demonstrate powerfully how important this undertaking is, despite the thorny theoretical and practical challenges that social rights present
Environmental ethics · Human rights · Law and economics · Normative · Political science · Sociology · Human Rights and Development · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |