Human Rights
In: Issues in Political Theory Ser.
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 What is a Human Right? -- Rights: general, positive, moral, human -- Understanding human rights -- 'Three generations' of rights -- Conclusion -- 2 A Brief History of Human Rights -- Introduction -- Natural rights in the eighteenth century -- More on the Enlightenment -- Social and economic rights in the nineteenth century -- The Second World War and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Conclusion -- 3 Philosophical Foundations for Human Rights -- Introduction -- The interest view -- Human dignity -- Personhood -- Sceptics: MacIntyre and Rorty -- Conclusion -- 4 A Political Conception of Human Rights -- Introduction -- Human rights in international legal and political practice -- The political view -- Criticisms of the political view -- Conclusion -- 5 Religion and Human Rights -- Introduction -- A secular or religious source for moral authority? -- Religious freedom and secular liberalism -- Islam and human rights -- Conclusion -- 6 Universalism and Relativism -- Introduction -- Types of relativism and the 'Asian values' debate -- Universalism and the self -- Feminist and flexible universalisms -- Conclusion -- 7 Minority Groups and Minority Rights -- Introduction -- Liberal multiculturalism -- Critics of liberal multiculturalism: egalitarianism, exit and essentialism -- Conclusion -- 8 Global Poverty and Human Rights -- Introduction -- Manifesto rights, subsistence and security -- Pogge, poverty and rights -- Poverty, agency and harm -- Conclusion -- 9 Environmental Human Rights? -- Introduction -- Ways of conceptualizing environmental human rights -- Environmental values and human rights -- Climate change and human rights -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Bibliography -- Index.