The Human Rights Discourse between Liberty and Welfare: Dialogue with Jacques Maritain and Amartya Sen - Couverture souple

Philip, Jiji

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3848741415 ISBN 13 : 9783848741410

Editeur : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Mbh & Co, 2017

Synopsis

Given the fact that the prevalent political debates about the status and significance of liberty and welfare are almost polarised, this book defends both of them as essential to human dignity and well-being. Amartya Sen's capability approach is the result of his constructive criticism of John Rawls' political liberalism. Though Jacques Maritain is often regarded as the forerunner of Rawls, he has not yet been discussed in relation to Sen's capability approach. Despite Maritain's pioneering contributions to human rights discourse in the twentieth century, his personalism only insufficiently reflects and explains the demands of welfare rights. In view of this shared deficit in liberal traditions, this book argues that Sen's human rights discourse, with its "goal rights system", persuasively integrates both liberty and welfare rights. In addition, it merges both human rights and human development discourses, consequently laying a solid foundation for a rights-based approach to development.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Angesichts der Tatsache, dass die vorherrschenden politischen Debatten über den Stellenwert von Freiheit und Wohlfahrt geradezu polarisiert sind, verteidigt dieses Buch beide als wesentlich für Menschenwürde und Wohlbefinden. Amartya Sen entwickelt seinen Capability Approach aus seiner konstruktiven Kritik am politischen Liberalismus von John Rawls. Obwohl Jacques Maritain oft als Rawls Vorläufer gilt, wurde er noch nicht in Dialog mit Sens Ansatz gebracht. Trotz Maritains Pionierbeiträgen zum Menschenrechtsdiskurs im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert hat sein Personalismus die Forderungen der Wohlfahrtsrechte allerdings nur unzureichend erfasst. In Anbetracht dieses gemeinsamen Defizits liberaler Traditionen wird argumentiert, dass Sens Menschenrechtsdiskurs mit seinem Zielrechte-System die Freiheits- und Wohlfahrtsrechte überzeugend integriert. Außerdem fügt er Menschenrechts- und Entwicklungsdiskurse zusammen; somit legt er einen soliden Grundstein für einen rechtebasierten Ansatz in der Entwicklungspolitik. Given the fact that the prevalent political debates about the status and significance of liberty and welfare are almost polarised, this book defends both of them as essential to human dignity and well-being. Amartya Sen s capability approach is the result of his constructive criticism of John Rawls political liberalism. Though Jacques Maritain is often regarded as the forerunner of Rawls, he has not yet been discussed in relation to Sen s capability approach. Despite Maritain s pioneering contributions to human rights discourse in the twentieth century, his personalism only insufficiently reflects and explains the demands of welfare rights. In view of this shared deficit in liberal traditions, this book argues that Sen s human rights discourse, with its goal rights system , persuasively integrates both liberty and welfare rights. In addition, it merges both human rights and human development discourses, consequently laying a solid foundation for a rights-based approach to development.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Mbh & Co
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3848741415
• ISBN 13: 9783848741410
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 491
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG; nomos@nomos.de; ; Waldseestraße 3 – 5; Baden-Baden; Baden-Württemberg; 76530; Allemagne