Rights-Based Ethics : Foundations and Applications / edited by Marcus Düwell, Johannes Graf Keyserlingk, and Philipp Richter.

Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Part I Introduction -- Rights-Based Ethics: Outline of an Approach -- Part II Conceptual and Foundational Questions -- Chapter 1 Why a Rights-Based Ethics? -- Chapter 2 Human Dignity as Absolute Inner Value and Moral Status -- Chapter 3 Reason and Moralities: The Prudential Foundations of Ethics in Alan Gewirth's Procedural Rationalism -- Chapter 4 Proving a Categorical Imperative by the Possibility of Self-Contradiction: The Paradox of Method in a Critique of Practical Reason -- Chapter 5 Conceptual Tools for the Analysis of Rights -- Chapter 6 The Problem of Aggregation in a Rights-Based Moral Theory -- Chapter 7 What Do I Morally Owe to Myself?: On the Moral Right to Freedom and Duties to Oneself in Alan Gewirth's Rights-Based Ethics -- Part III Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Rights -- Chapter 8 Rights, Coercion, and the Will of the People: On the Relationship between Politics and Normativity in Marsilius of Padua -- Chapter 9 Do Immoralists Suffer a Loss of Meaning in Life?: A Focus on Gewirth's Theory of Self-Fulfillment and Metz's Fundamentality Theory -- Part IV Rights in Contexts of Applied Ethics -- Chapter 10 On a Freedom-Based Concept of Person and Its Bioethical Consequences -- Chapter 11 Moral Rights as Criteria for Professional Nursing Care -- Chapter 12 How Should One Respond to Climate Change?: A Rights-Based Ethical Theory's Approach to the Problem -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 14 Rights-Based Risk Ethics: A Family Dispute -- Chapter 15 Balancing Rights While Protecting the Climate.

Chapter 16 Too Big to Fail Banks, Private Credit Creation, and Systemic Risks: Challenges of a Modern Ethics of Risk -- Part V Outlook -- Chapter 17 On the Foundations and Implications of Moral Rights -- Index.

Rights-based ethics offers 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