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Overview
Provides a comprehensive discussion of the controversial human duties declarations promulgated in recent decades
Uses Kant's taxonomy of duties as a guideline to distinguish genuine from spurious human rights' claims
Challenges the pervasive idea that (duties of) justice is/are more important than (duties of) virtue
Provides a critique of the dominance of human rights discourse not only from the 'external' perspective of political philosophy, but also from within human rights discourse itself
Includes a study of the Universal Declaration's drafting history, which shows that the drafters initially meant to achieve a balance between rights and duties, a lesson that has since then been forgotten
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- ISBN-13: 9783319669564
- ISBN-10: 3319669567
- Publisher: Springer
- Publish Date: November 2017
- Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
- Page Count: 183
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