Human Duties and the Limits of Human Rights Discourse
This book demonstrates the importance of a duty-based approach to morality. The dominance of what has been labeled “rights talk” leads to the neglect of duties without corresponding rights (e.g., duties of virtue) and stimulates the proliferation of quest
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Eric R. Boot
Human Duties and the Limits of Human Rights Discourse
Studies in Global Justice Volume 17 Series Editor Deen K. Chatterjee, University of Utah, U.S.A. Editorial Board Elizabeth Ashford, University of St. Andrews, U.K. Gillian Brock, University of Auckland, New Zealand Thom Brooks, Durham University, U.K. Simon Caney, Oxford University, U.K. Hiram E. Chodosh, President, Claremont McKenna College, U.S.A. Jean-Marc Coicaud, Rutgers University, U.S.A. Michael Doyle, Columbia University, U.S.A. Andreas Follesdal, University of Oslo, Norway Carol Gould, Hunter College, U.S.A. Virginia Held, City University of New York, U.S.A. Alison Jaggar, University of Colorado, U.S.A. Jon Mandle, SUNY, Albany, U.S.A. Richard W. Miller, Cornell University, U.S.A. Sanjay Reddy, The New School for Social Research, U.S.A. David Rodin, University of Oxford, U.K. Joel H. Rosenthal, President, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs Kok-Chor Tan, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Leif Wenar, King’s College London, U.K. Veronique Zanetti, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Aims and Scope In today’s world, national borders seem irrelevant when it comes to international crime and terrorism. Likewise, human rights, poverty, inequality, democracy, development, trade, bioethics, hunger, war and peace are all issues of global rather than national justice. The fact that mass demonstrations are organized whenever the world’s governments and politicians gather to discuss such major international issues is testimony to a widespread appeal for justice around the world. Discussions of global justice are not limited to the fields of political philosophy and political theory. In fact, research concerning global justice quite often requires an interdisciplinary approach. It involves aspects of ethics, law, human rights, international relations, sociology, economics, public health, and ecology. Studies in Global Justice takes up that interdisciplinary perspective. The series brings together outstanding monographs and anthologies that deal with both basic normative theorizing and its institutional applications. The volumes in the series discuss such aspects of global justice as the scope of social justice, the moral significance of borders, global inequality and poverty, the justification and content of human rights, the aims and methods of development, global environmental justice, global bioethics, the global institutional order and the justice of intervention and war. Volumes in this series will prove of great relevance to researchers, educators and students, as well as politicians, policymakers and government officials. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/6958
Eric R. Boot
Human Duties and the Limits of Human Rights Discourse
Eric R. Boot Institute for Philosophy Leiden University Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN 1871-0409 ISSN 1871-1456 (electronic) Studies in Global Justice ISBN 978-3-319-66956-4 ISBN 978-3-319-66957-1 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66957-1 Library of Con
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