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.
It 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.

The volume also contains a very readable article by Jens Kertscher.

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


The Open Access version is available here (opens in new tab).

Supported by the Open Access-monograph funds of the university library of the TU Darmstadt and by the Institute for Philosophy I at the Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Research of the Ruhr-University Bochum.