Human Rights as Ethics, Politics, and Law

This study offers a critical approach to the connections between the law, politics, and morality as they figure in human rights discourse. It argues that human rights must be understood – ethically, politically, and legally – through the prism of reasonable skepticism towards the legitimacy of conte...

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Hlavní autor: Namli, Elena
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description This study offers a critical approach to the connections between the law, politics, and morality as they figure in human rights discourse. It argues that human rights must be understood – ethically, politically, and legally – through the prism of reasonable skepticism towards the legitimacy of contemporary institutions for the protection of human rights. The colonial legacy of human rights, the lack of transparent principles for dealing with conflicting rights, and the counterproductive overemphasis upon the importance of legal instruments are considered as offering serious challenges to the lasting legitimacy of human rights. These challenges are analyzed by means of selected human rights-related cases as well as theoretical discussion.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1619412025-07-03T05:08:01Z Human Rights as Ethics, Politics, and Law Namli, Elena Human rights, Ethics and human rights, political dimensions of human rights, human rights as law and morality thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPV Political control and freedoms::JPVH Human rights, civil rights thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTQ Ethics and moral philosophy This study offers a critical approach to the connections between the law, politics, and morality as they figure in human rights discourse. It argues that human rights must be understood – ethically, politically, and legally – through the prism of reasonable skepticism towards the legitimacy of contemporary institutions for the protection of human rights. The colonial legacy of human rights, the lack of transparent principles for dealing with conflicting rights, and the counterproductive overemphasis upon the importance of legal instruments are considered as offering serious challenges to the lasting legitimacy of human rights. These challenges are analyzed by means of selected human rights-related cases as well as theoretical discussion. 2025-07-03T05:08:00Z 2025-07-03T05:08:00Z 2025-07-02T11:22:16Z 2014 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/103882 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/161941 eng Uppsala Studies in Social Ethics open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/103882/1/978-91-554-8977-9.pdf 10.33063/gve9da56 10.33063/gve9da56 231 open access
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Human Rights as Ethics, Politics, and Law
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