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Metz, Thaddeus
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2024-09-09T09:26:35Z |
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2024-07 |
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In this article I draw on resources from the Global South, and particularly the African philosophical tradition, to construct a theory of human rights grounded on dignity that presents a challenge to globally dominant, autonomy-based approaches. Whereas the latter conceive of human rights violations as degradations of our rational nature, the former does so in terms of degradations of our capacity to be party to harmonious or friendly relationships. Although I have in the past presented the basics of this relational approach, in this article I present new argumentation in support of it. I defend it from criticism and also go on the offensive by arguing that understanding the human rights violations of torture and rape to be (roughly) behavior that treats innocent parties in an extremely discordant or unfriendly way is, if not more plausible than standard Kantian understandings, at least a promising alternative to them. |
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Philosophy |
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2026-06-17 |
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hj2024 |
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dc.description.sdg |
SDG-16:Peace,justice and strong institutions |
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https://academic.oup.com/monist |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Thaddeus Metz, A Relational Theory of Dignity and Human Rights: An Alternative to Autonomy, The Monist, Volume 107, Issue 3, July 2024, Pages 211–224, https://doi.org/10.1093/monist/onae009. |
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0026-9662 (print) |
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2153-3601 (online) |
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dc.identifier.other |
10.1093/monist/onae009 |
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http://hdl.handle.net/2263/98080 |
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en |
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dc.publisher |
Oxford University Press |
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. All rights reserved. This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article : A Relational Theory of Dignity and Human Rights: An Alternative to Autonomy, The Monist, Volume 107, Issue 3, July 2024, Pages 211–224, https://doi.org/10.1093/monist/onae009. The definite version is available at :
https://academic.oup.com/jcsl. |
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dc.subject |
Global South |
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Arican philosophical tradition |
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Human rights |
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Dignity |
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SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions |
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dc.title |
A relational theory of dignity and human rights : an alternative to autonomy |
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dc.type |
Postprint Article |
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