Addressing the deficit : budgetary implications of selected GAO work : report to Congress

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910692620503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C. (441 G St., NW, Rm LM, Washington 20548)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Rights-Based Ethics : Foundations and Applications

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911028727403321
• Autore: Düwell Marcus
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2025; ©2025
• ISBN: 1-04-043172-0; 1-04-043169-0; 1-003-51525-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (366 pages)
• Collana: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory Series
• Altri autori (Persone): KeyserlingkJohannes Graf; RichterPhilipp
• Disciplina: 171/.2
• Soggetti: Political Science / Human Rights; Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Political science; Philosophy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Part I Introduction -- Rights-Based Ethics: Outline of an Approach -- Part II Conceptual and Foundational Questions -- Chapter 1 Why a Rights-Based Ethics? -- Chapter 2 Human Dignity as Absolute Inner ; Value and Moral Status -- Chapter 3 Reason and Moralities: The Prudential Foundations of Ethics in Alan Gewirth's Procedural Rationalism -- Chapter 4 Proving a Categorical Imperative by the Possibility of Self-Contradiction: The Paradox of Method in a Critique of Practical Reason -- Chapter 5 Conceptual Tools for the Analysis of Rights -- Chapter 6 The Problem of Aggregation in a Rights-Based Moral Theory -- Chapter 7 What Do I Morally Owe to Myself?: On the Moral Right to Freedom and Duties to Oneself in Alan Gewirth's Rights-Based Ethics -- Part III Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Rights -- Chapter 8 Rights, Coercion, and the Will of the People: On the Relationship between Politics and Normativity in Marsilius of Padua -- Chapter 9 Do Immoralists Suffer a Loss of Meaning in Life?: A Focus on Gewirth's Theory of Self-Fulfillment and Metz's Fundamentality Theory -- Part IV Rights in Contexts of Applied Ethics -- Chapter 10 On a Freedom-Based Concept of Person and Its Bioethical Consequences -- Chapter 11 Moral Rights as Criteria for Professional Nursing Care -- Chapter 12 How Should One Respond to Climate Change?: A Rights-Based Ethical Theory's Approach to the Problem -- Chapter 13 Standard Threats and (Mandatory) Human Rights Due Diligence in Global Supply Chains: On the Corporate Responsibility to Address Human Rights Abuses Committed by Third Parties -- Chapter 14 Rights-Based Risk Ethics: A Family Dispute -- Chapter 15 Balancing Rights While Protecting the Climate.; Chapter 16 Too Big to Fail Banks, Private Credit Creation, and Systemic Risks: Challenges of a Modern Ethics of Risk -- Part V Outlook -- Chapter 17 On the Foundations and Implications of Moral Rights -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Rights-based ethics offer a conceptual framework to address the complex ethical issues of our time. This volume combines systematic and historical perspectives on rights-based ethics with discussions of a broad range of topics in applied ethics to assess the achievements and limits of rights-based approaches.