Theoretical foundations for human rights

dc.contributor.authorBufacchi, Vittorio
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-27T15:52:11Z
dc.date.available2018-02-27T15:52:11Z
dc.date.issued2017-09-27
dc.date.updated2018-02-27T15:43:24Z
dc.description.abstractThis article explores an alternative to the established dichotomy between philosophical (natural law) accounts of human rights, characterized by a foundationalist tendency, and political (practice-based) accounts of human rights, which aspire to be non-foundationalist. I argue that in order to justify human rights practice, political accounts of human rights cannot do without the support of theoretical foundations, although not necessarily of the natural-law variety. As an alternative to natural-law metaphysics, a deflationary theory of human rights, based on a deflationary account of truth, is put forward. Starting from a distinction between ‘extreme’ and ‘moderate’ forms of deflationism, this article defends a constructivist theory of human rights grounded on the Humean notion of conventionalism. This innovative approach to human rights provides political conceptions of human rights with the foundations (or quasi-foundations) they need, but are currently lacking.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationBufacchi, V. (2018) 'Theoretical Foundations for Human Rights', Political Studies, In Press. doi:10.1177/0032321717723510en
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0032321717723510
dc.identifier.endpage33en
dc.identifier.issn0032-3217
dc.identifier.issn1467-9248
dc.identifier.journaltitlePolitical Studiesen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/5558
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSage Publicationsen
dc.relation.urihttp://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0032321717723510
dc.rights© 2018 by Political Studies Association. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.en
dc.subjectDeflationaryen
dc.subjectTruthen
dc.subjectFoundationalismen
dc.subjectHuman rightsen
dc.subjectFoundationsen
dc.subjectDeflationismen
dc.subjectHumeen
dc.subjectConventionalismen
dc.titleTheoretical foundations for human rightsen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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