Rights-Based Ethics by Marcus Dwell, Johannes Graf Keyserlin... - 9781032848396

Rights-Based EthicsFoundations and Applications\nAuthor(s): Marcus Dwell, Johannes Graf Keyserlingk, Philipp Richter\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032848396, 978-1032848396\nSynopsis\nRights-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.\n\nThe normative concepts of fundamental human rights and human dignity play an essential role in considerations about global justice and international politics. However, these concepts have not been taken up sufficiently in the standard approaches to normative ethics. This volume contends that rights-based approaches in ethics not only offer a theoretical framework to explain complex normative concepts, but they can also of.