RT Article
T1 Towards an action-guiding theory of human rights
JF Journal of global ethics
VO 19
IS 2
SP 206
OP 220
A1 Rettig, Cristián
LA English
PB Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1859495311
AB What are the main conditions that any theory of human rights should satisfy to guide action? If agents must take action for a fairer world as human rights discourse suggests, this is a crucial question to reflect upon. In this paper, I make a proposal. I argue that any theory of (moral) human rights that guides action on the basis of correlative duties must satisfy three key conditions. The first condition is focused on the specification of act-types, the second concerns the distribution of correlative duties, and the third is focused on the resolution of (resolvable) conflicts of human rights. I show that this proposal has substantive implications because it implies to reject, challenge and, in some cases, resist ideas that are commonly accepted in the literature on human rights.
K1 Human Rights
K1 Duties
K1 action-guiding theory
K1 Action
DO 10.1080/17449626.2023.2206822