The Making of Dignity and Human Rights in the Western Tradition : A Retrospective Analysis / / Aniceto Masferrer

• Autore: Masferrer Aniceto <1971->
• Pubblicazione: Valencia, Spain : , : Tirant lo blanch, , [2023]; ©2023
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (199 pages)
• Disciplina: 179.9
• Soggetto topico: Dignity; Human rights - History
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: From Human Rights to Natural Rights -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Recognition of Fundamental Rights in Modern Constitutionalism (Nineteenth Century) -- 1.2.1 Fundamental Rights as a Reason for and Limit of the Liberal State -- 1.2.2 The Fragility of `Fundamental Rights´ in the Face of `National Sovereignty´ and the Law as `Expression of the General Wi... -- 1.3 The Defence of Human Rights in the Early Modern Period (Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries) -- 1.3.1 Spanish Colonisation in America: Natural Rights and Their Universal Nature -- 1.3.2 The Thirty Years´ War and the Peace of Westphalia: Towards Religious Freedom -- 1.3.3 The Glorious Revolution and the Bill of Rights of 1689: The Enshrinement of Parliamentarism as an Instrument of Politica... -- 1.4 Medieval Precedents of Human Rights (Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries) -- 1.4.1 The Freedom of the Church from Secular Power: Libertas ecclesiae -- 1.4.2 Medieval Parliamentarism -- 1.4.2.1 Was the Magna Carta (John I of England, 1215) the First? -- 1.4.2.2 The Golden Bull (Andrew II of Hungary, 1222) -- 1.4.2.3 The Spanish Origins of Western Parliamentarism and the Rule of Law in the Medieval Western World: The Cortes of León a... -- 1.4.2.4 Its Legal Standing: quod omnes tangit ab omnibus approbari debet -- 1.4.3 Municipal Freedom and Autonomy: Charta libertatis -- 1.5 Other More Distant Precedents in the History of Human Rights -- 1.6 Nature, Natural Law and Natural Rights -- 1.6.1 Antiquity -- 1.6.1.1 Stoicism -- 1.6.1.2 Cicero -- 1.6.1.3 Roman sources -- 1.6.1.4 Christian Sources -- 1.6.2 Middle Ages -- 1.6.2.1 The Canonist Doctrine -- 1.6.2.2 Thomas Aquinas -- 1.6.2.3 John Duns Scotus and William of Ockham -- 1.6.2.4 John of Gerson and Konrad Summenhart -- 1.6.3 Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. ; 1.6.3.1 Francisco de Vitoria and Domingo de Soto -- 1.6.3.2 Luis de Molina and Francisco Surez -- 1.6.3.3 Jean Bodin -- 1.6.3.4 Hugo Grotius -- 1.6.3.5 Thomas Hobbes -- 1.6.3.6 Samuel Pufendorf -- 1.6.3.7 John Locke -- 1.6.4 Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- 1.6.4.1 David Hume -- 1.6.4.2 Jeremy Bentham -- 1.6.4.3 John Stuart Mill -- 1.6.4.4 Legal Positivism -- 1.6.4.5 Marxism and Other Totalitarian Political Systems -- 1.6.4.6 The Triumph of the Denomination of the Right-Faith as a `Subjective Right´ -- 1.7 Final Considerations -- Some Cited Normative Sources and Declarations -- Spain -- International -- References -- Doctrinal and Bibliographical Sources -- Chapter 2: Looking Backwards on the Notion of Human Dignity: From the Spanish 1978 Constitution to the Discovery of America -- 2.1 Human Dignity in the Current Spanish Constitution -- 2.2 Human Dignity in Comparative Constitutional Law -- 2.2.1 México -- 2.2.2 Switzerland -- 2.2.3 Poland -- 2.2.4 Portugal -- 2.2.5 Greece -- 2.2.6 Germany -- 2.3 The Origin of the Legal Notion of Human Dignity in the Aftermath of World War II -- 2.4 The Historical Precedents of the Notion of `Human Dignity´ (from the Nineteenth to the Fifteenth Century) -- 2.4.1 The Absence of the Expression `Human Dignity´ in Early Modern Constitutional Texts -- 2.4.2 The Resurgence and Influence of the Kantian Doctrine of Human Dignity -- 2.4.3 The (Pre-Kantian) Expression and the Notion of `Human Dignity´ in the Eighteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- 2.4.4 The Notion of Human Dignity in the Sixteenth Century -- 2.4.4.1 Francisco de Vitoria -- 2.4.4.2 Friar Bartolomé de las Casas -- 2.4.5 The Notion of Human Dignity in the Fifteenth Century -- 2.5 Final Considerations -- Some Cited Normative Sources and Declarations -- Spain -- International -- References -- Doctrinal and Bibliographical Sources. ; Chapter 3: Looking Forwards to the Future of Dignity and Human Rights: New Generation Rights -- 3.1 `New Generation Rights´? What `Generation´ (Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, etc.)? -- 3.2 The New Rights: Characteristics and Typology -- 3.2.1 The Right to the Environment -- 3.2.2 The Right to Peace -- 3.2.3 The Right to Development -- 3.2.4 The Right of Peoples to Self-Determination -- 3.2.5 The Right to the Common Heritage of Mankind -- 3.2.6 The Right to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) -- 3.2.7 Bioethics and Biotechnology-Related Rights -- 3.2.8 Other So-Called `Rights´: Non-human Rights and `Rights-Desire´ -- 3.3 From the Inflation of Rights to Their Trivialisation and Denaturalisation -- 3.4 Epilogue: Critical Reflections on Some Alleged `New Rights´ -- Some Cited Normative Sources and Declarations -- Some Charters and Declarations on Ecological Matters: -- References -- Doctrinal and Bibliographical Sources -- Appendix -- Decreta of Cortes of León (1188).
• Titolo autorizzato: The Making of Dignity and Human Rights in the Western Tradition
• ISBN: 3-031-46667-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910799240803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in the history of law and justice ; ; Volume 29.