Revival: Human Rights in Philosophy and Practice (2001) - 9781138721692

Taylor & Francis

This title was first published in 2001. The essays in this highly cosmopolitan collection were selected from over 250 contributions presented at the 19th World Congress in Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) held in New York in 1999. > This title was first published in 2001. The essays in this highly cosmopolitan collection were selected from over 250 contributions presented at the 19th World Congress in Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) held in New York in 1999. They represent a cross-section of contemporary work on human rights derived from eleven different countries. > I: The Philosophy of Rights; 1: Libertarianism, Motivation and Rights; 2: Human Rights, Truth, MacIntyre, and Putnam's Pragmatism; 3: Towards a Natural Justice of Rights Relationships; 4: Collective Moral Responsibility; 5: Are Human Rights Universal?; II: Constitutional Rights; 6: The Role of the Constitutional Courts in the Development of Legal Systems; 7: On Constitutional Social Rightl