Mind and rights : the history, ethics, law and psychology of human rights /

"Mind and Rights combines historical, philosophical, and legal perspectives with research from psychology and the cognitive sciences to probe the justification of human rights in ethics, politics and law. Chapters critically examine the growth of the human rights culture, its roots in history a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mahlmann, Matthias (Author)
Corporate Author:	Cambridge University Press
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Subjects:	Human rights > Philosophy. Human rights > Psychological aspects. Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Philosophie. Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Aspect psychologique. Human rights > Philosophy Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction : navigating deep waters
the problems of human rights and new perspectives of enquiry
The concept of human rights
The truth of human rights
a mortal daughter of time?
Down the deeper wells of time
Far from obvious
the quest for the justification of human rights
A castle of sand?
Which kind of mind, which kind of morals, which kind of rights?
Where did it all come from?
Morality and the evolution of the mind
The mentalist theory of ethics and law
Epilogue : the tilted scales of justice.