Simpson, Robert Mark;
(2019)
Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights.
Journal of Moral Philosophy
, 16
(4)
pp. 517-520.
10.1163/17455243-01604003.
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Abstract
This is a review of a long, comprehensive, and mostly very good collection of philosophical essays on human rights. I briefly summarise the main ideas put forward in some of the essays that I most admired in the collection. While the collection includes essays from proponents of a wide range of theoretical and methodological perspectives, I suggest in my review that the collection's overall function is to serve as a kind of demonstrative rejoinder to those philosophers, like Raz, who argue that we can and should theorise human rights without trying to furnish them with philosophical foundations.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1163/17455243-01604003 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1163/17455243-01604003 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Philosophy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10181245 |
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