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The two theories that dominate contemporary human rights discussion are the interest theory and the will theory. Interest theory argues that the principal function of human rights is to protect and promote certain essential human interests, while will theory attempts to establish the validity of human rights based on the unique human capacity ...
In a speech two years later, his divisions follow the three watchwords of the French Revolution: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. [2] The three generations are reflected in some of the rubrics of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. [citation needed] While the Universal Declaration of Human Rights lists first- and second ...
The public interest theory of regulation claims that government regulation acts to protect and benefit the public. [1] The public interest is "the welfare or well-being of the general public" and society. [2] Regulation in this context means the employment of legal instruments (laws and rules) for the implementation of policy objectives.
Charles R. Beitz (born 1949) [1] is an American political theorist. He is Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics at Princeton University, where he has been director of the University Center for Human Values and director of the Program in Political Philosophy. [2] His philosophical and teaching interests focus on global political theory ...
e. The principle of equal consideration of interests is a moral principle that states that one should both include all affected interests when calculating the rightness of an action and weigh those interests equally. [1] The term "equal consideration of interests" first appeared in Australian moral philosopher Peter Singer 's 1975 book Animal ...
Human rights are moral principles or norms [1] that establish standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected as substantive rights in municipal and international law. [2] They are commonly understood as inalienable, [3] fundamental rights "to which a person is inherently entitled simply because he or she is a human being" [4] and ...
Portrait of Thomas Hobbes. Thomas Hobbes’s moral and political philosophy is constructed around the basic premise of social and political order, explaining how humans should live in peace under a sovereign power so as to avoid conflict within the ‘ state of nature ’. [1] Hobbes’s moral philosophy and political philosophy are intertwined ...
Contents. History of human rights. While belief in the sanctity of human life has ancient precedents in many religions of the world, the foundations of modern human rights began during the era of renaissance humanism in the early modern period. The European wars of religion and the civil wars of seventeenth-century Kingdom of England gave rise ...