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Record Nr.

UNINA9910404158303321

Autore

Philips Joseph Pieter Mathijs <1974->

Titolo

Actualizing human rights : global inequality, future people, and motivation / / Jos Philips

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Taylor & Francis, 2020

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2020

ISBN

1-00-301156-X

1-000-05660-0

1-003-01156-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Routledge studies in human rights

Disciplina

323

Soggetti

Human rights - Moral and ethical aspects

Distributive justice

Environmental justice

Population - Social aspects

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy

POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

"This book argues that ultimately human rights can be actualized, in two senses. By answering important challenges to them, the real-world relevance of human rights can be brought out; and people worldwide can be motivated as needed for realizing human rights. Taking a perspective from moral and political philosophy, the book focuses on two challenges to human rights that have until now received little attention, but that need to be addressed if human rights are to remain plausible as a global ideal. Firstly, the challenge of global inequality: how, if at all, can one be sincerely committed to human rights in a structurally greatly unequal world that produces widespread inequalities of human rights protection? Secondly, the challenge of future people: how to adequately include future people in human



rights, and how to set adequate priorities between the present and the future, especially in times of climate change? The book also asks whether people worldwide can be motivated to do what it takes to realize human rights. Furthermore, it considers the common and prominent challenges of relativism and of the political abuse of human rights. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of human rights, political philosophy, and more broadly political theory, philosophy and the wider social sciences"--