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Capabilities Approach
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Central Human Capabilities
Consensus Concept
Contemporary Human Rights Movement
De Iure Belli Ac Pacis
Direct Democracy
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Error Theory
ethical naturalism
evolutionary ethics
evolutionary origins of human rights discourse
Gewirth's Argument
Gewirth’s Argument
Human Rights
Human Rights Talk
Identical DNA
Inherent Natural Rights
Ius Gentium
Ius Naturale
Locke's Political Theory
Locke’s Political Theory
Lords Proprietors
Meme Complex
Moral Instincts
moral psychology
normative theory
political anthropology
Prima Facie Justification
social contract philosophy
Standard Social Science Model
Universal Human
Universal Human Rights
Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9781612052427
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this groundbreaking and provocative new book, philosopher of science David N. Stamos challenges the current conceptions of human rights, and argues that the existence of universal human rights is a modern myth. Using an evolutionary analysis to support his claims, Stamos traces the origin of the myth from the English Levellers of 1640s London to our modern day. Theoretical defenses of the belief in human rights are critically examined, including defenses of nonconsensus concepts. In the final chapter Stamos develops a method of naturalized normative ethics, which he then applies to topics routinely dealt with in terms of human rights. In all of this Stamos hopes to show that there is a better way of dealing with matters of ethics and justice, a way that involves applying the whole of our evolved moral being, rather than only parts of it, and that is fiction-free.
David N. Stamos teaches philosophy at York University in Toronto, Canada, and is the author of Evolution and the Big Questions (2008), Darwin and the Nature of Species (2007), and The Species Problem (2003). He has also published in a variety of journals, including Philosophy of Science, Journal of the History of Biology, Biology & Philosophy, and The Evolutionary Review.
