Human Rights Theory
Criteria, Boundaries, and Complexities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21205947 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Belden Fields (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 407-418 |
| Publication date | 2009-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review of Qualitative Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1940-8447 • E-ISSN: 1940-8455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/irqr.2009.2.3.407 |
| OpenAlex | W2267900849 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
This article attempts to explore the possibilities of grounding human rights theoretically. It examines arguments that such an attempt is futile because the concept itself is flawed, arguments that the concept is a valid one and only becomes flawed when it is overextended in scope, and presents my own “holistic” argument that some of the arguments for constraining the scope do not hold up under deeper scrutiny
Epistemology · Human rights · Law and economics · Political science · Scrutiny · Sociology · Computer Science · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Human Rights and Development · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2015 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |