Theoretical foundations for human rights
| dc.contributor.author | Bufacchi, Vittorio | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-02-27T15:52:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-02-27T15:52:11Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-09-27 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2018-02-27T15:43:24Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | This 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.status | Peer reviewed | en |
| dc.description.version | Accepted Version | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Bufacchi, V. (2018) 'Theoretical Foundations for Human Rights', Political Studies, In Press. doi:10.1177/0032321717723510 | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/0032321717723510 | |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 33 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0032-3217 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1467-9248 | |
| dc.identifier.journaltitle | Political Studies | en |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 1 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10468/5558 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Sage Publications | en |
| dc.relation.uri | http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0032321717723510 | |
| dc.rights | © 2018 by Political Studies Association. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. | en |
| dc.subject | Deflationary | en |
| dc.subject | Truth | en |
| dc.subject | Foundationalism | en |
| dc.subject | Human rights | en |
| dc.subject | Foundations | en |
| dc.subject | Deflationism | en |
| dc.subject | Hume | en |
| dc.subject | Conventionalism | en |
| dc.title | Theoretical foundations for human rights | en |
| dc.type | Article (peer-reviewed) | en |
