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Shashi Motilal 
Applied Ethics and Human Rights 
Conceptual Analysis and Contextual Applications

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This collection of papers offers a philosophical perspective – including the all-important and significant perspective from the point of view of ‚dharma‘ – to a host of intricate ethical problems in personal, professional and social life, by providing an understanding of the concepts of human rights and responsibilities which are central to those problems.

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Preface; Introduction; Part One: Rights, Obligations and Responsibilities; Applying Ethics: Modes, Motives and Levels of Commitment; Jurisprudence and the Individual: Bridging the General and the Particular; Why Moral Relativism Does Not Make Sense; Human Rights – A Theoretical Foray; Moral Relativism and Human Rights; Complicity and Responsibility; Dharma: The Overriding Principle of Indian Life and Thought; Moral Foundations of Social Order as Suggested in the Vaiśesikasūtras; Modern Western Conception of Justice as Equality before the Law and Dharmaśāstras; Part Two: Human Rights Issues; Fragile Identities and Constructed Rights; Affirmative Action: Compensation or Discrimination?; Ethics, Human Rights and the LGBT Discourse in India; Distributive Justice: Locating in Context; Punishment and Human Rights; Rights of the ‘Mad’ in Mental Health Sciences; Choice, Life and the (m)Other: Towards Ethics in/of Abortion; The Nationalist Project and the Women’s Question: A Reading of The Home and the World and Nationalism; On the Idea of Obligation to Future Generations; Morality in Cyberspace: Intellectual Property and the Right to Information; Violence – A Right to the Survival of the Self?; ‚Moral Obligation‘ to Fight for the Prevention of Greater Calamity: A Debate between Sādharana Dharma and Sva Dharma; Globalisation and Human Rights; Notes on Contributors

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Shashi Motilal is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Delhi.
Sprache Englisch ● Format PDF ● Seiten 372 ● ISBN 9781843313373 ● Dateigröße 1.7 MB ● Herausgeber Shashi Motilal ● Verlag NBN International – Anthem Press ● Land GB ● Erscheinungsjahr 2010 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 4819002 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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