Mind and rights the history, ethics, law and psychology of human rights
Mind and Rights combines historical, philosophical, and legal perspectives with research from psychology and the cognitive sciences to probe the justification of human rights in ethics, politics and law. Chapters critically examine the growth of the human rights culture, its roots in history and cur...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009769406506719 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : navigating deep waters - the problems of human rights and new perspectives of enquiry
- The concept of human rights
- The truth of human rights - a mortal daughter of time?
- Down the deeper wells of time
- Far from obvious - the quest for the justification of human rights
- A castle of sand?
- Which kind of mind, which kind of morals, which kind of rights?
- Where did it all come from? - Morality and the evolution of the mind
- The mentalist theory of ethics and law
- Epilogue : the tilted scales of justice.
