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Category Archives: ethics of human rights
The Ethics of Human Rights (60): Absolute Human Rights and Threshold Deontology
(source) There’s this difficult contradiction between two moral intuitions about human rights. On the one hand, we tend to feel very strongly about the extreme importance of a particular subset of human rights. Especially the right to life, the right … Continue reading
The Ethics of Human Rights (59): Human Rights and Theories of Justice
(source) First of all, my apologies for the ridiculous length of this post, but I wanted to offer a systematic overview of some of the most common theories of justice and to try to figure out which one is best … Continue reading
The Ethics of Human Rights (58): Economic Human Rights and Desert
(source) First, a brief reminder: economic human rights are a subset of human rights dealing with poverty, standard of living, food, shelter, work, education, social security and health. They are set out and guaranteed in the International Covenant on Economic, … Continue reading
Posted in economics, ethics of human rights, philosophy, poverty
Tagged Basic income, culture of poverty, desert, determinism, economic rights, human rights, International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights, laurel and hardy, moral hazard, morality, risk, self-destructive, social security, undeserving poor, universal declaration of human rights, welfare state
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The Ethics of Human Rights (57): Human Rights and Conscientious Objection
A conscientious objection is an objection to engage in conduct that you perceive as being incompatible with your religious or secular beliefs about morality, or, in other words, as being incompatible with your conscience. The conduct in question may be … Continue reading
The Ethics of Human Rights (56): What’s Wrong With Exploitation?
There is no human right to be free from exploitation, but some rights prohibit practices that we normally call exploitative: child labor, unfair wages etc. However, what exactly is exploitation and what is it that makes it wrong? According to … Continue reading
Posted in economics, equality, ethics of human rights, globalization, international relations, justice, philosophy, poverty, trade, work
Tagged child labor, Child labour, employment, exploitation, free market, hillel steiner, injustice, labor, marxism, slavery, theft
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