Is humanity under a duty to deliver socioeconomic human rights?

What’s special about human rights? For Rowan Cruft human rights are special because they capture the importance of the good of the right-holder. But his account struggles with explaining the existence of global socioeconomic human rights. I argue that such rights exist and show how we should revise...

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Autor Principal: Stemplowska, Z
Formato: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicado: Wiley 2021
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Summary:What’s special about human rights? For Rowan Cruft human rights are special because they capture the importance of the good of the right-holder. But his account struggles with explaining the existence of global socioeconomic human rights. I argue that such rights exist and show how we should revise Cruft’s account to accommodate this.