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Record Nr.

UNINA9910466313003321

Autore

Hodgson Douglas.

Titolo

Individual duty within a human rights discourse / / Douglas Hodgson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-138-25833-4

1-315-25236-8

1-351-92782-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 pages)

Collana

Applied Legal Philosophy

Disciplina

340/.112

Soggetti

Human rights

Human rights - Moral and ethical aspects

Duty

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2003 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. The historical development of the principle of duty and its contemporary philosophical sources -- 3. The taxonomy of duties -- 4. Religion, ethics and the principle of lndividual duty -- 5. Individual criminal responsibility under international law -- 6. The position of individual duty within the international and regional human rights system -- 7. Particular individual duties explicitly recognised under international and regional human rights law and by national law -- 8. Socialism and individual duty -- 9. Impoverished 'rights talk', the sociology of duty and the re-emergence of communitarianism -- 10. The enforcement of individual duties -- 11. Conclusion.