Today human rights are the dominant moral doctrine for evaluating the moral status of the contemporary geo-political order. In the 20th century a broad consensus has emerged on framing judgment of nations against an international moral code prescribing certain benefits and treatment for all humans. Within many nations, political debates rage over the denial or abuse of human rights. Legal documents to protect human rights have proliferated. The course examines the philosophical basis and content of the doctrine of human rights. It assesses the contemporary significance of human rights, charts the historical development of the concept of human rights, beginning with a discussion of the earliest philosophical origins of the bases of human rights and culminating in some of most recent developments in their codification. It analyses also the formal and substantive distinctions philosophers have drawn between various forms and categories of human rights, the justifications of their claims, and the main criticism currently addressed to them.
Curriculum
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- Human rights in the philosophical perspective: ontology and epistemology in the theory of human rights
- Freedom, justice as fairness and the ethics of democratic discourse: Rawls, Habermas and the challenges of postmodern critique
- Conceptions of autonomy and vulnerability in Honneth
- The psychological foundation of fundamental rights' fruition
– The Hegelian roots of the struggles for recognition: the social "fabric of justice" and the moral grammar of social conflicts
- The right to freedom and the social foundation of democratic ethical life
- The reasons for the existence of legal and moral freedom and their pathologies respectively
- Social freedom and the three registers of the ‘We’ of personal relationships
- Recognition and and free market: the sphere of consumption, the labour market and environmental sustainability
- Democracy and fundamental rights: the open society and pluralism
2) HONNETH, Axel, ANDERSON, Joel., "Autonomy, Vulnerability, Recognition and Justice" (2005) (the article in question is available at the section FILES of the Team THEORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS 2024/2025 on the platform MICROSOFT TEAMS). In the case of difficulties in accessing the platform Teams please promptly contact the teacher.
3) Extra-reading materials will be supplemented in class for students whose attendance is mandatory.
Mutuazione: 21810441 TEORIA DEI DIRITTI UMANI in Politiche per la Sicurezza Globale: Ambiente, Energia e Conflitti LM-52 A - Z MAIOLO FRANCESCO
Programme
CONTENT OF THE PROGRAMME -- Human rights in the philosophical perspective: ontology and epistemology in the theory of human rights
- Freedom, justice as fairness and the ethics of democratic discourse: Rawls, Habermas and the challenges of postmodern critique
- Conceptions of autonomy and vulnerability in Honneth
- The psychological foundation of fundamental rights' fruition
– The Hegelian roots of the struggles for recognition: the social "fabric of justice" and the moral grammar of social conflicts
- The right to freedom and the social foundation of democratic ethical life
- The reasons for the existence of legal and moral freedom and their pathologies respectively
- Social freedom and the three registers of the ‘We’ of personal relationships
- Recognition and and free market: the sphere of consumption, the labour market and environmental sustainability
- Democracy and fundamental rights: the open society and pluralism
Core Documentation
1) HONNETH, Axel, "Freedom’s Right. The Social Foundations of Democratic Life", translated by J. Ganahl, Polity Press, Cambridge 2014 (ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-6943-4)2) HONNETH, Axel, ANDERSON, Joel., "Autonomy, Vulnerability, Recognition and Justice" (2005) (the article in question is available at the section FILES of the Team THEORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS 2024/2025 on the platform MICROSOFT TEAMS). In the case of difficulties in accessing the platform Teams please promptly contact the teacher.
3) Extra-reading materials will be supplemented in class for students whose attendance is mandatory.
Attendance
Class-attendance is mandatory.Type of evaluation
Throughout the course students will have to take two separate written test. Each of them consists in answering two questions extrapolated from the texts used in the course. Each answer must amount to 800 words. The result of each of the two tests amounts to 30% of the final grade. The result of the oral final exam amounts to 40% of the final grade. teacher profile teaching materials
- Human rights in the philosophical perspective: ontology and epistemology in the theory of human rights
- Freedom, justice as fairness and the ethics of democratic discourse: Rawls, Habermas and the challenges of postmodern critique
- Conceptions of autonomy and vulnerability in Honneth
- The psychological foundation of fundamental rights' fruition
– The Hegelian roots of the struggles for recognition: the social "fabric of justice" and the moral grammar of social conflicts
- The right to freedom and the social foundation of democratic ethical life
- The reasons for the existence of legal and moral freedom and their pathologies respectively
- Social freedom and the three registers of the ‘We’ of personal relationships
- Recognition and and free market: the sphere of consumption, the labour market and environmental sustainability
- Democracy and fundamental rights: the open society and pluralism
2) HONNETH, Axel, ANDERSON, Joel., "Autonomy, Vulnerability, Recognition and Justice" (2005) (the article in question is available at the section FILES of the Team THEORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS 2024/2025 on the platform MICROSOFT TEAMS). In the case of difficulties in accessing the platform Teams please promptly contact the teacher.
3) Extra-reading materials will be supplemented in class for students whose attendance is mandatory.
Mutuazione: 21810441 TEORIA DEI DIRITTI UMANI in Politiche per la Sicurezza Globale: Ambiente, Energia e Conflitti LM-52 A - Z MAIOLO FRANCESCO
Programme
CONTENT OF THE PROGRAMME -- Human rights in the philosophical perspective: ontology and epistemology in the theory of human rights
- Freedom, justice as fairness and the ethics of democratic discourse: Rawls, Habermas and the challenges of postmodern critique
- Conceptions of autonomy and vulnerability in Honneth
- The psychological foundation of fundamental rights' fruition
– The Hegelian roots of the struggles for recognition: the social "fabric of justice" and the moral grammar of social conflicts
- The right to freedom and the social foundation of democratic ethical life
- The reasons for the existence of legal and moral freedom and their pathologies respectively
- Social freedom and the three registers of the ‘We’ of personal relationships
- Recognition and and free market: the sphere of consumption, the labour market and environmental sustainability
- Democracy and fundamental rights: the open society and pluralism
Core Documentation
1) HONNETH, Axel, "Freedom’s Right. The Social Foundations of Democratic Life", translated by J. Ganahl, Polity Press, Cambridge 2014 (ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-6943-4)2) HONNETH, Axel, ANDERSON, Joel., "Autonomy, Vulnerability, Recognition and Justice" (2005) (the article in question is available at the section FILES of the Team THEORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS 2024/2025 on the platform MICROSOFT TEAMS). In the case of difficulties in accessing the platform Teams please promptly contact the teacher.
3) Extra-reading materials will be supplemented in class for students whose attendance is mandatory.
Attendance
Class-attendance is mandatory.Type of evaluation
Throughout the course students will have to take two separate written test. Each of them consists in answering two questions extrapolated from the texts used in the course. Each answer must amount to 800 words. The result of each of the two tests amounts to 30% of the final grade. The result of the oral final exam amounts to 40% of the final grade.