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  title info:
    title: Being social
    sub title: the philosophy of social human rights
  name:
    name part: Brownlee, Kimberley
    name part: 1978-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Jenkins, David
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Neal, Adam
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2022
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: "Human rights capture what people need to live minimally decent lives. Recognised dimensions of this minimum include physical security, due process, political participation, and freedom of movement, speech, and belief, as well as - more controversially for some - subsistence, shelter, health, education, culture, and community. Far less attention has been paid to the interpersonal, social dimensions of a minimally decent life, including our basic needs for decent human contact and acknowledgement, for interaction and adequate social inclusion, and for relationship, intimacy, and shared ways of living, as well as our competing interests in solitude and associative freedom. This pioneering collection of original essays aims to remedy the neglect of social needs and rights in human rights theory and practice by exploring the social dimensions of the human-rights minimum. The essays subject enumerated social human rights and proposed social human rights to philosophical scrutiny, and probe the conceptual, normative, and practical implications of taking social human rights seriously. The contributors to this volume demonstrate powerfully how important this undertaking is, despite the thorny theoretical and practical challenges that social rights present"--
  table of contents: Intro -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Interlocking Rights, Layered Protections: Varieties of Justifications for Social Rights -- 1.1 Introduction: Varieties of Justifications -- 1.2 Standard Threats -- 1.3 Interlocking Rights -- 1.4 Layered Protections -- 1.5 Conclusions -- 2. A Human Right to Relationships? -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Prima Facie Argument -- 2.3 The Human Right to Intimacy Consideration -- 2.4 The Group Right to Intimacy -- 2.5 Conclusion -- 3. A Right to Opportunities for Meaningful Relationships -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Brownlee on the Right against Social Deprivation -- 3.3 Human Rights and Their Grounds -- 3.4 Two Distinct Social Rights -- 3.5 Four Objections to a Right to Opportunities for Meaningful Relationships -- 3.6 Distinguishing the Two Rights -- 3.7 The Intrinsic Prudential Value of Meaningful Relationships and Basic Social Interactions -- 3.8 Conclusion -- 4. The Right to Participate in the Life of the Society -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Interactional Rights and the Life of the Society -- 4.3 Barriers to Social Participation -- 4.4 An Objection -- 4.5 Conclusion -- 5. What Becomes of the Right to Marry? Disestablishment and the Value of Marriage -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Right to Marry, Marital Establishment, and Disestablishment -- 5.3 What Happens to the Right to Marry? -- 5.4 What Is the Value of Marriage? -- 5.5 Which Is Best for Freedom of Marital Expression (RTM2)? -- 5.6 Perfect or Imperfect Justice? -- 5.7 Concluding Remarks -- 6. Do Older People Have a Right to Be Loved? -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Human Rights as Fundamental Conditions for a Good Life -- 6.3 Older People Need Love and Emotional Support -- 6.4 Who Has the Duty? -- 6.5 Some Policy Considerations -- 6.6 Conclusion.
  table of contents: 7. Social Rights at Work -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Just and Favourable Conditions of Work as a Human Right -- 7.3 Fundamental Social Interests and Rights -- 7.4 Social Rights at Work -- 7.5 A Human Right to a Fair Workweek -- 7.6 Conclusion -- 8. Fair Equality of Opportunity, Social Relationships, and Epistemic Advantage -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Two Roles of Social Relationships in Hiring -- 8.3 Fair Epistemic Opportunities -- 8.4 Regulating Upstream Opportunities for Relational Epistemic Goods -- 8.5 In Defence of Anonymous Hiring -- 9. Communication and Rights -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Communication's Role in Other Human Rights -- 9.3 Rights' and Communication's Common Structure -- 9.4 Rights' Justification -- 9.5 Communication as a Natural or Legal-Conventional Right -- 9.6 Communication Rights' Scope -- 10. The (Social) Right to the City -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 A Right to the City -- 10.3 A Right to What? -- 10.4 Social Right to the City: Inhabitants -- 10.5 Social Right to the City: Producers -- 10.6 Social Right to the City: Needful -- 10.7 Conclusion: Radical Implications -- 11. Rights to Belong and Rights to be Left Alone? Claims to Caring Relationships and their Limits -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Caring Relationships and the State -- 11.3 Interests in Being Left Alone -- 11.4 The Social Bases of Caring Relationships: Demands on Institutions and Individuals -- 12. The Role of Solitude in the Politics of Sociability -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Solitude versus Loneliness -- 12.3 Relationship Goods, Social Human Rights, and Solitude -- 12.4 The Good of Solitude -- 12.5 Solitude and Loneliness -- 12.6 Conclusions -- 13. Normative Disorientation and a Limitation of Human Rights -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 A Limitation of the Conceptual Language of Human Rights.
  table of contents: 13.3 The Existential Threat of Evolutionary Disconnection: Practical, not Theoretical -- 13.4 The Ethical Significance of Normative Disorientation -- 13.5 The Philosophical Significance of Normative Disorientation -- 13.6 Conclusion -- 14. Four Types of Anti-Loneliness Policies -- 14.1 Introduction: State Duties to Help Address Loneliness -- 14.2 Defining Loneliness -- 14.3 Four Ways of Addressing Loneliness -- 14.4 Assessing the Four Types of Anti-loneliness Policies -- 14.5 Concluding Remarks -- Epilogue: Achieving Adequate Social Access -- E.1 Introduction -- E.2 Responsibilities to Promote One's Own Social Access -- E.3 Moral Responsibilities to Help Each Other Enjoy Adequate Social Access -- E.4 Civil Society's Responsibilities to Respect and Promote Adequate Social Access -- E.5 Businesses' and Corporations' Responsibilities -- E.6 Governments' Responsibilities -- E.7 International Human Rights Strategies -- E.8 Conclusion -- Index.
  note: edited by Kimberley Brownlee, David Jenkins, and Adam Neal.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Human rights
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Social interaction
  subject:
    topic: Human rights
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
    topic: Philosophie
  subject:
    topic: Interaction sociale
  subject:
    topic: Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
    topic: Aspect social
  subject:
    topic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
  subject:
    topic: Human rights
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Human rights
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Social interaction
  subject:
    topic: Politics & government
  subject:
    topic: Politics and Government
  classification: JC571
  classification: 323.01
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)1329423039
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  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 221121
    record change date: 20260318164729.1
    record identifier: in00005697537
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng