The Human Rights Discourse between Liberty and Welfare: A Dialogue with Jacques Maritain and Amartya Sen (Ethik in den Sozialwissenschaften - Ethics in the Social Sciences, 3) - Softcover

Philip, Jiji

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3848741415 ISBN 13: 9783848741410

Publisher: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3848741415
• ISBN 13: 9783848741410
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 491