Index
aesthetic evaluation 406
aesthetic quality 84
affirmative action 349
affirmative human rights theories 210
elements of human existence 221
eudemonistic 260
political 252
procedural 217
altruistic punishment 353
Álvarez, Alejandro 101
American Convention on Human Rights 20
American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man 108
American Revolution 93
animal morality 361
Antiphon 149
Atlantic Charter 103
authoritarianism 283
autonomous critical thought 130
Barbeyrac, Jean 178
Bayesian learning abilities 437
behavioral science 347
Beitz, Charles 252
Benjamin, Walter 86
Bentham, Jeremy 46
Bill of Rights 135
biological determinism 88
biological reductionism 88
Black Lives Matter 18
Blackstone, William 14
Bloch, Ernst 307
Burlamaqui, Jean-Jacques 178
Camus, Albert 38,
Chang, P. C., 180
Chapultepec Conference 106
Chomsky, Noam 308
Cicero 160
civil rights 95
Code of Hammurabi 73
Code of Manu 11
Code of Ur-Nammu 73
Codex Iuris Civilis 11
cognitive preconditions of morality 332
cognitive psychology 335
cognitive science 325
Cold War 117
competence and performance 403
conception of history 85
conflicts of rights 54
Conrad, Joseph 99
considered judgments 403
Constitution of the International Labour Organization 101
constitutional drafting 12
contingent construction of reason 8
contractualism 219
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 113
Convention on the Political Rights of Women 123
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 114
Convention on the Rights of the Child 114
corporal punishment 421
Corpus Iuris Civilis 157
Covenant of the League of Nations 100
critique of human rights
aporia of human rights 296
bad politics 296
democratic concerns 294
feminist 293
Marxist 286
postcolonial 289
postmodern 288
Cruz, Santa 111
Darwin, Charles 391
de Vattel, Emer 178
de Vitoria, Francisco 168
Decalogue 83
democracy in ancient Greece 146
democratic constitutional state 18
Descartes’ evil demon 27
direct social norm approach 353
discourse theory 217
discrimination 53
distinction of law and morality 66
doing/allowing distinction 440
Dulles, John Foster 117
Dworkin, Ronald 260
Edict of Toleration 164
Eisenhower, Dwight David 117
embryos/fetuses 80
emotivism 418
empirical psychology 24
empirical theories of moral cognition 332
epistemic justification 449
epistemology of moral cognition 333
equality in ancient Greece 148
eternal law 45
ethical egoism 409
ethics and law 24
eudaimonia 274
European empires 5
evolution of human rights 70
evolutionary pluralism 387
evolutionary psychology 363
existential decisionism 282
explanatory theories 202
fait social 63
fallibility of human thought 455
Fehr, Ernst 353
feminism 292
foundational theories 452
Frangulis, Antonios 101
Frankfurt Constitution (Frankfurter Reichsverfassung) 96
French Revolution 93
Fridays for Future 18
Frisch, Max 308
functional incrementalism 378
fundamental rights 51
Gaitán, Jorge Eliécer 109
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand 375
Geneva Convention on Refugees 112
Geneva Conventions 114
Genocide Convention 112
Goodman, Nelson 438
Gould, Stephen Jay 391
Graeber, David 137
Habeas Corpus Act 135
Habermas, Jürgen 330
Haidt, Jonathan 418
Haitian Revolution 97
Heidegger, Martin 29
Herero genocide 68
Herero Rebellion 138
hierarchy of laws 50
historical contingency 70
history of subjective rights 143
Hohfeld, Wesley Newcomb 46
Hohfeldian analysis 46
human creativity 88
human dignity 21, 51, 54, 62, 85, 115, 159, 241, 261, 316
abusive use of 322
criticism of 318
justification of 318
human goods 204
human rights
as legal rights 304
catalogues 53
charisma 192
community and 303
development 191
effectiveness of 284
evolutionary origin 357
extraterritorial application 81
foundation of 318
international enforcement of 115
limitations of 55
message of 30
minimalist conception of 277
misuse of 257
myth of Western origins 121
obstacles 188
political roots 128
political theory 206
politics of 116
psychological theory 197
rationale of 267
recognition 45
regional protection of 19
relation to decolonization 126
relation to sovereignty 108
rule-utilitarian defense 216
underdetermination 227
human selfhood 89
human worth 159
Humboldt, Wilhelm von 272
imagery of epics 144
immunities 50
impartial spectator 187
innate ideas 330
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 113
International Covenant on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights 113
international human rights architecture 20
international law 19
interpretation of empirical data 346
Iraq War 81
Isokratia 148
late scholastics 168
Lauterpacht, Hersch 105
Lebensformen 8
leftist movements 308
legal entities 63
legal hermeneutics 64
Lemkin, Raphael 105
lessons of the twentieth century 306
Lewontin, Richard 387
liabilities 50
linguistic relativity 29
Malik, Charles 111
Mandelstam, André 101
manifesto rights 60
margin of appreciation (ECHR) 256
Marxist theory of law 211
material content of rights 209
means/side-effect distinction 340
Mehta, Hansa 111
Mendelssohn, Moses 179
methods of inquiry 181
modern bills of rights 55
modes of human rights protection 19
moral cognition 329
moral compass 32
moral development 442
moral disagreement 426
moral judgment 352
moral relativism 427
moral responsibility 362
moral sense 330
moral/conventional norms 442
morality of human rights 19
nature of rights 7
neuroscientific emotivism 339
nihilism 309
Nixon, Richard 122
nonmoral preconditions of moral judgment 427
nonreferential moral ontology 450
normative commands 82
normative principles 310
normative structure of rights 208
normative theory 34
Nussbaum, Martha 244
objective group morality 373
objective reason argument 234
ontogenetic origin of moral cognition 430
Orwell, George 308
paternalistic helping 431
peer punishment 353
peremptory nature of rights 61
perspective of indigenous people 136
Petition of Right 135
phenomenology of morality 405
philosophy of language 29
Piaget, Jean 431
political aestheticism 282
political dandyism 282
political ideologies 119
political rights 53
positive law 45
postcolonial world 33
post-hoc rationalization 338
post-structuralist theories of human rights 211
pouvoir constituant 282
poverty of stimulus argument 433
principle of generic consistency 223
principle of utility 341
principles 56
privileges 48
process of clarifying ethical concepts 428
proportionality 44
proportionality analysis 323
prospect theory 348
Pufendorf, Samuel 175
qualia 405
rational choice theory 347
Raz, Joseph 238
regime change 118
Reich der Zwecke (realm of ends) 15
relative rights 52
relativism 447
resolution of the Diplomatic Academy (1928) 102
reverse inference 344
revisionist human rights theories 210
right to be active 52
right to institutions 53
right to self-determination 64
rights as states of affairs 134
rights-holders 7
rights terminology 147
Roman law 161
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano 103
rules 56
Russell, Bertrand 308
Schurtenberger, Ivo 353
scope of practical reason 346
self-determination 125
Sen, Amartya 244
sense of justice 32
sentimentalist theory 425
shared human existence 149
slavery
abolitionist movement 151
slavery reports 140
Smuts, Jan Cristiaan 77
social intuitionist model 418
social struggles 410
State of the Union address (January 6, 1941) 103
Statute of Rome 114
stoicism 160
Suarez, Francisco 173
subject status 31
system of limitations 265
systems theory 211
Tasioulas, John 238
Taylor Mill, Harriet 272
Tehran Conference on Human Rights 126
theory of goods 266
theory of human goods 279
Torture Convention 113
Treaty of Lisbon 114
tyranny 154
ultimate principles of justification 452
ultimatum game 352
United Nations 77
universal moral grammar 412
usefulness of legal entrenchment 299
utilitarianism 341
utility maximization 353
Vernunftrecht (law of reason) 174
Verstandesbegriffe (Kant) 335
Virginia Charter 135
Vrba, Elisabeth 391
Wallace, Alfred Russel 391
War on Terror 23
Weber, Max 194
weighting in practice 57
WEIRD demographic 419
Wells, Herbert George 103
Weltlosigkeit 89
Welzel, Hans 339
Wengrow, David 137
Western elitism 83
Wilson, Harold 117
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 29
Wolff, Christian 178
women’s liberation movement 97
women’s rights 109
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