Mind and Rights: The History, Ethics, Law and Psychology of Human Rights

Human Rights

Mind and Rights: The History, Ethics, Law and Psychology of Human Rights

By Matthias Mahlmann
Cambridge University Press February 2023

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ISBN-13
9781316635407
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
February 2023
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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 and current human rights theories. They engage with the so-called cognitive revolution and investigate the relationship between human cognition and human rights to determine how insights gained from modern theories of the mind can deepen our understanding of the foundations of human rights. Mind and Rights argues that the pursuit of the human rights idea, with its achievements and tragic failures, is key to understand what kind of beings humans are. Amidst ongoing debate on the universality and legitimacy of human rights, this book provides a uniquely comprehensive analysis of great practical and political importance for a culture of legal justice undergirded by rights. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Navigating deep waters: the problems of human rights and new perspectives of enquiry

Part I. The Concept of Human Rights and the Global History of an Idea:
1. The concept of human rights
2. The truth of human rights: a mortal daughter of time?
3. Down the deeper wells of time

Part II. Justification:
4. Far from obvious: the quest for the justification of human rights
5. A castle of sand?

Part III. Rights and Moral Cognition:
6. Which kind of mind, which kind of morals, which kind of rights?
7. Where did it all come from?: Morality and the evolution of the mind
8. The mentalist theory of ethics and law
Epilogue. The tilted scales of justice

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