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Rights-Based Ethics: Foundations and Applications

Rights-Based Ethics: Foundations and Applications

Author: Marcus Düwell; Johannes Graf Keyserlingk; Philipp Richter
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032848396
Published In: September 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Rights-based ethics offer a conceptual framework to address the complex ethical issues of our time. This volume combines systematic and historical perspectives on rights-based ethics with discussions of a broad range of topics in applied ethics to assess the achievements and limits of rights-based approaches.

The normative concepts of fundamental human rights and human dignity play an essential role in considerations about global justice and international politics. However, these concepts have not been taken up sufficiently in the standard approaches to normative ethics. This volume contends that rights-based approaches in ethics not only offer a theoretical framework to explain complex normative concepts but they can also offer answers to some of today’s most complex moral questions. Its chapters are divided into three thematic sections. The first section addresses the conceptual and foundational questions of rights-based ethics. The second section offers historical and cultural perspectives on rights. Finally, the third section explores how rights-based ethics can address applied issues related to climate change, health systems, global supply chains, and the finance industry.

This volume will be of interest to scholars and graduate students working in ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of law, and the social sciences.

Part 1: Introduction

Introduction: Rights-Based Ethics – Outline of an Approach Marcus Düwell, Johannes Graf Keyserlingk, and Philipp Richter

Part 2: Conceptual and Foundational Questions

1. Why a Rights-Based Ethics? Michael Boylan

2. Human Dignity as Absolute Inner Value and Moral Status Marie Göbel

3. Reason and Moralities: The Prudential Foundations of Ethics in Alan Gewirth‘s Procedural Rationalism Christoph Bambauer (†)

4. Proving a Categorical Imperative by the Possibility of Self-Contradiction: The Paradox of Method in a Critique of Practical Reason Deryck Beyleveld

5. Conceptual Tools for the Analysis of Rights Sven Ove Hansson

6. The Problem of Aggregation in a Rights-based Moral Theory Jens Kertscher

7. What Do I Morally Owe to Myself? On the Moral Right to Freedom and Duties to Oneself in Alan Gewirth’s Right-based Ethics Philipp Richter

Part 3: Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Rights

8. Rights, Coercion and the Will of the People. On the Relationship between Politics and Normativity in Marsilius of Padua Marcus Düwell

9. Do Immoralists Suffer a Loss of Meaning in Life? A Focus on Gewirth’s Theory of Self-Fulfillment and Metz’s Fundamentality Theory Tobias Vogel

Part 4: Rights in Contexts of Applied Ethics

10. On a Freedom-Based Concept of Person and Its Bioethical Consequences Reiner Wimmer

11. Moral Rights as Criteria for Professional Nursing Care Monika Bobbert

12. How Should One Respond to Climate Change? A Rights-Based Ethical Theory’s Approach to the Problem Robert Heeger

13. Standard Threats and (Mandatory) Human Rights Due Diligence in Global Supply Chains: On the Corporate Responsibility to Address Human Rights Abuses Committed by Third Parties Johannes Graf Keyserlingk

14. Rights-Based Ethics: A Family Dispute Lukas H. Meyer and Harald Stelzer

15. Balancing Rights While Protecting the Climate Stearns Broadhead and Adriana Placani

16. Too Big to Fail Banks, Private Credit Creation, and Systemic Risks: Challenges of a Modern Ethics of Risk Vandad Sohrabi

Part 5: Outlook

17. On the Foundations and Implications of Moral Rights Klaus Steigleder