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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Philosophical foundations of human rights / Andrew Fagan — The metaphysical foundations of natural rights / Edward Feser — Kant’s theory of human rights / Luigi Caranti — Hate speech, human rights, and G.W.F Hegel / Richard Mullender — Hannah Arendt on human rights / Roger Berkowitz — Democracy as human rights / Michael Goodhart — Human rights, justice and pluralism / Fabrizio Sciacca — Human rights and democracy / Luigi Caranti — Cosmopolitanism and human rights / Robert Fine — A critique of positive rights / Tibor R. Machan — Nonsense on stilts / Roger Scruton — Communitarian critique of human rights / Amitai Etzioni — What are human rights? : Four schools of thought / Marie-Benedicte Dembour — Social suffering and human rights / Iain Wilkinson — Human rights as cultural practices / Fuyuki Kurasawa — Human rights as status relations : a sociological approach to understanding human rights / Murray Milner, Jr. — Becoming irrelevant : the curious history of anthropology and human rights / Mark Goodale — Economics and human rights / Lorenz Blume — Rights, reform and resources : Malthusian reflections on scarcity and old age / Bryan S. Turner — Buddhism and human rights / Damien Keown — Christianity and human rights / Esther D. Reed — Confucianism and human rights / Justin Tiwald — Islamic conceptions of human rights / Irene Oh — A non-religious basis for the idea of human rights : the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as overlapping consensus / Ari Kohen — Group rights : a defense / David Ingram — Economic rights : past, present, and future / Gerald J. Beyer — Language rights : the forgotten dimension of human rights / Stephen May — Children’s rights / David Archard — The development of international child law : the definition of the child and implementation mechanisms / Jenny Kuper — The right to food / Claire Apodaca — The rights of refugees / Hakan G. Sicakkan — The rights of the disabled / Doris Zames Fleischer — Fetal rights / Jonathan B. Imber — The human rights of the
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