What Human Rights Are There—if Any—and Why?
Are there human rights to a good such as social welfare, which depends on circumstances, and on the needs of a putative right-holder? Is justice constituted by rights? Does it take belief in God to understand the grounds of human rights? The essay responds to Nicholas Wolterstorff’s answers to these...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2010
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Studies in Christian ethics
Year: 2010, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 172-181 |
| Further subjects: | B
Justice
B conditional rights B Universal Declaration B Human Rights B grounding of rights B European Convention |
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| Summary: | Are there human rights to a good such as social welfare, which depends on circumstances, and on the needs of a putative right-holder? Is justice constituted by rights? Does it take belief in God to understand the grounds of human rights? The essay responds to Nicholas Wolterstorff’s answers to these questions. |
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| ISSN: | 0953-9468 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studies in Christian ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0953946809359469 |