Human Needs, Human Rights
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23157763 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Massimo Renzo (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 570-587 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199688623.003.0033 |
| OpenAlex | W2480101802 |
| ISBN | 9780199688623 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
This chapter presents a response to the last chapter’s account of the relativity and ethnocentricity of human rights. It outlines a naturalistic conception of human rights that is capable of resisting the objection of parochialism. It begins by considering Chapter 31’s attempt to ground human rights in normative agency. It raises two objections against the view presented in the last chapter and argues for its abandonment in favour of a needs-based justification of human rights. It then articulates a so-called ‘basic needs approach’ to the justification of human rights, and shows how this approach can address the parochialism objection.
Abandonment (legal) · Agency (philosophy) · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Human rights · Law and economics · Normative · Parochialism · Political science · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics
Theory of Needs as Justification of Human Rights
Human Rights, Ownership, and the Individual
Structural Injustice
The Problem of Recognition of Human Rights
Need, equity, and accountability
Explicative-Existencial Justificacion of Human Rights Analysis of Robert Alexy's Argument in Context of Is-Ought Problem
Thinking about need
| Citations per year | 0.88 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |