LEADER 05194nam 22006255 450 001 9910255220903321 005 20200629141455.0 010 $a3-319-66957-5 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-66957-1 035 $a(CKB)4100000000882803 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-66957-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5112678 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000000882803 100 $a20171024d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHuman Duties and the Limits of Human Rights Discourse /$fby Eric R. Boot 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (IX, 183 p. 2 illus.) 225 1 $aStudies in Global Justice,$x1871-0409 ;$v17 311 $a3-319-66956-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aList Of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Debate Concerning Human Duties -- Chapter 2 Duties and Rights -- Chapter 3 Two Contentious Duties -- Chapter 4 Subsistence Needs and Individual Duties -- Chapter 5 Duties to the Community and Civic Virtue -- Conclusion. 330 $aThis book demonstrates the importance of a duty-based approach to morality. The dominance of what has been labeled ?rights talk? leads to the neglect of duties without corresponding rights (e.g., duties of virtue) and stimulates the proliferation of questionable human rights. Therefore, this book argues for a duty-based perspective on morality in order to, first, salvage duties of virtue, and, second, counter the trend of rights-proliferation by providing some conceptual clarity concerning rights and duties that will enable us to differentiate between genuine and spurious rights-claims. The argument for this duty-based perspective is made by examining two particularly contentious duties: duties to aid the global poor and civic duties. These two duties serve as case studies and are explored from the perspectives of political theory, jurisprudence and moral philosophy. The argument is made that both these duties can only be adequately defined and allocated if we adopt the perspective of duties, as the predominant perspective of rights either does not recognize them to be duties at all or else leaves their content and allocation indefinite. This renewed focus on duties does not wish to diminish the importance of rights. Rather, the duty-based perspective on morality will strengthen human rights discourse by distinguishing more strictly between genuine and inauthentic rights. Furthermore, a duty-based approach enriches our moral landscape by recognizing both duties of justice and duties of virtue. The latter duties are not less important or supererogatory, but function as indispensable complements to the duties prescribed by justice. In this perceptive and exceptionally lucid book, Eric Boot argues that a duty-focused approach to morality will remedy the shortcomings he finds in the standard accounts of human rights. The study tackles staple philosophical topics such as the contrasts between duties of virtue and duties of justice and imperfect and perfect obligations. But more importantly perhaps, it also confronts the practical question of what our human rights duties are and how we ought to act on them. Boot's book is a splendid example of how philosophy can engage and clarify real world problems. Kok-Chor Tan, Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania A lively and enjoyable defence of the importance of our having duties to fellow human beings in severe poverty. At a time when global justice has never been more urgent, this new book sheds much needed light. Thom Brooks, Professor of Law and Government and Head of Durham Law School, Durham University. 410 0$aStudies in Global Justice,$x1871-0409 ;$v17 606 $aPolitical science 606 $aPolitical theory 606 $aHuman rights 606 $aEthics 606 $aPolitical philosophy 606 $aPhilosophy of Law$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E27000 606 $aPolitical Theory$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911010 606 $aHuman Rights$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/R19020 606 $aMoral Philosophy$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E41000 606 $aPolitical Philosophy$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E37000 615 0$aPolitical science. 615 0$aPolitical theory. 615 0$aHuman rights. 615 0$aEthics. 615 0$aPolitical philosophy. 615 14$aPhilosophy of Law. 615 24$aPolitical Theory. 615 24$aHuman Rights. 615 24$aMoral Philosophy. 615 24$aPolitical Philosophy. 676 $a340.1 700 $aBoot$b Eric R$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0921299 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255220903321 996 $aHuman Duties and the Limits of Human Rights Discourse$92066409 997 $aUNINA