Philosophical foundations of human rights

Author(s):  
Andrew Fagan

This chapter examines the relationship between labour law and its philosophical foundations. It suggests that it is essential to stand back from political compromises, which are often the subject of labour law scholarship, to consider the key attributes of the subject and its foundational goals and principles. It proposes that we need a normative account of labour law in order to assess its shortcomings and propose reforms, but also that the most important reasons for pursuing a philosophical agenda concern the continuing existence of the subject of labour law and the paradigm around which it is built. Having made the case for the importance of examining philosophical foundations, the chapter considers methodological challenges in using political theory. We finally turn to some central values that underlie labour law and which constitute the themes of this book—freedom, dignity, and human rights; distributive justice and exploitation; workplace democracy and self-determination; social inclusion—and summarise the chapters of the book.


Author(s):  
Abdullah Haqyar

The phenomenon of human rights, in its contemporary sense, is not even ancient in Western thought, and it came from the context of a social and political movement in France, and the most important of the fundamental rights that collected under this title is the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to equality, the right to asylum, the right to freedom of expression, the right to freedom of opinion and religion, women's rights, the right to participate in social and political life, and the right to personal property. It is an established principle that the first condition for the exercise of these rights is their incompatibility with the rights of other human beings and their human rights. The philosophical basis of human rights in the West consists of three important principles: the principle of human dignity, equality and justice. But the difference between human rights in the West and Islam is that "God" is at the center of the Islamic worldview, while in the Western world the "man" is the central one, and man is the measure of all rights. A clearer interpretation of the two types of "God-centered" or "human-centered" ideas in the West is the predominance of human-centeredness and in Islam the predominance of God-centeredness. The philosophical foundations of human rights in Islam are the principle of human dignity, the principle of God-seeking, the principle of human immortality, and the principle of its developmental relation to the set of being.


2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 182-217
Author(s):  
Reza Ahmad Zahid

This article aims to answer how Islamic thought deals with issues of internationalization. Where in general religions agree that human rights are rights owned by each individual solely because of his dignity as a human being, not the construction of society regarding individual rights. While on the other hand, some experts state that human rights are normative elements that are inherent in human individuals because there are laws whose application differs according to space and time. Between Islam and human rights has a relationship that lies in the universality of Islamic teachings. the concept of human rights has been outlined in the basic principles of Islamic law originating from the texts of the Koran, the Sunnah of the Prophet and friends, as well as the construction of scholars' thoughts. Human rights should be understood and accepted as a universal human treasure whose normative and philosophical foundations can be traced and found in various systems of values ​and traditions. Such global ethics cannot be formulated without religious contributions.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-183
Author(s):  
Athanasia Petropoulou

The political, methodological and interpretative perspectives of a cosmopolitan vision are in the process of gaining more and more legitimacy, also within the specific environment of the European Charter of Human Rights. This essay analyzes Court decisions and interpretations and attempts to establish a parallelism between the judiciary principles and the ethical and philosophical foundations of postmodernism: above all as to the modes of transmission of values and principles. The striking example is the construction of national identity as a response to global insecurity. The author of this essay attempts to analytically deconstruct the ideological underpinnings of this regressive response.


2019 ◽  
Vol specjalny (XIX) ◽  
pp. 85-105
Author(s):  
Tomasz Ćwiertniak

This article presents the basic problems surrounding the question of philosophical justification of human rights. In the first part of this paper, the Author points out the deficit of philosophical reflection both in modern discourse on human rights, and within the legal sphere. This deficit leads to a series of negative consequences, such as 1) an excessive number of rights considered to be inalienable and inherent, which results in a depreciation of their importance (the problem of the „inflation” of rights); 2) the ideological entanglement of human rights; and 3) aseverance of the relationship between rights and duties. At the same time, there is much controversy currently surrounding the cathegory of human person and his/her dignity. This issue – which carries with it serious practical implications – demonstrates the necessity of in-depth philosophical reflection on the ontological and antrophological foundations of human rights, understood as an ethical minimum that can be accepted by people of different cultures and worldviews.


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