Griffin, James

On human rights/ James Griffin. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. - xiii, 339 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-329) and index.

Human rights: the incomplete idea -- First steps in an account of human rights -- When human rights conflict -- Whose rights? -- My rights: but whose duties? -- The metaphysics of human rights -- The relativity and ethnocentricity of human rights -- Autonomy -- Liberty -- Welfare -- Human rights: discrepancies between philosophy and international law -- A right to life, a right to death -- Privacy -- Do human rights require democracy? -- Group rights.

9780199238781 (hbk.) 0199238782 (hbk.)


Human rights.
Human rights--Philosophy.

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