Book Chapter

Why Human Rights?

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Citation

Cruft R (2022) Why Human Rights?. In: Tomalty J & Woods K (eds.) Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights. London: Routledge.

Abstract
This chapter argues for the value of conceptualising serious issues of justice and human need in terms of human rights. It highlights two structural features entailed by the fact that human rights are rights: (1) a conceptual relation to duties and (2) a conceptual relation to ‘directedness’. The chapter shows that a normative concept with these two features is - despite certain costs - especially well suited to defend and protect people from harms of exclusion, oppression and dehumanisation.

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Output Status: Forthcoming

StatusIn Press
PublisherRoutledge
Place of publicationLondon