Victims' stories and the advancement of human rights /
'Victims' Stories and the Advancement of Human Rights' addresses a set of critical topics that victims' stories of human rights abuse raise but that philosophers have thus far neglected: paradigms of victimhood and unjustifiable exclusions from the category of victim; narrative s...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 'Victims' Stories and the Advancement of Human Rights' addresses a set of critical topics that victims' stories of human rights abuse raise but that philosophers have thus far neglected: paradigms of victimhood and unjustifiable exclusions from the category of victim; narrative structures as constraints on victims' stories and as vehicles for articulating human rights norms; the role of emotional responses to victims' stories in discerning their normative significance; empathy with victims' stories as a pathway to moral understanding and human rights commitment; and the need for an ethical framework for obtaining victims' stories and for civil society institutions that can disseminate these stories for purposes of advancing human rights. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (260 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199930395 0199930392 9780190490102 0190490101 |