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Reproductive Work and Productive Fairness
In academic and public debates, defenders of the case for sharing the costs of children often claim that by having and rearing children parents...
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Billy Christmas: property and justice. A liberal theory of Natural Rights. New York: Routledge, 2021. E-Book (ISBN: 978-0-429-29725-0), € 29.70. 184 pp.
In this book Billy Christmas advances an interpretation of justice grounded in a distinctive theory of property. Christmas’ account of property is at...
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History and Dialectics of Intellectual Property
In Chap. 2 , the common association of intellectual property and the abstract right is challenged. When...
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Regulating Communicative Risk: Online Harms and Subjective Rights
States are in the process of creating controversial legislation aimed at subjecting ‘harmful’ online communication on social media and search engines...
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Person, Property, Relationships: A Cont(r)actual View
This article challenges the long-standing boundary that separates human beings from non-human entities, whether animate or inanimate. In doing so, it...
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Justice and the EU: Productive or Relational Reciprocity?
In this paper, I critically analyze Andrea Sangiovanni’s approach to international justice in the EU that he labels Reciprocity-based...
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Rawls and Economic Liberties
There is widespread agreement among political philosophers that there is a core set of civil and political liberties that ought to be given special...
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Women’s Rights: A Precursor for African Development
In postcolonial Africa, development has, generally, been premised on the philosophy that; it is a product of collective or collaborative approach....
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Contemplating the principles of the UNESCO declaration on bioethics and human rights: a bioaesthetic experience
The purpose of our article is to contemplate, from an aesthetic-artistic vision, the principles of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human...
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Cosmopolitanism, International Development and Human Rights
This chapter shows that cosmopolitanism, international development and human rights can be articulated in ways that are more or less supportive of...
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Differences in African Indigenous Rights Messaging in International Advocacy Coalitions
International Indigenous rights coalitions increasingly involve Indigenous and non-Indigenous civil society organizations (CSOs) with diverse...
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Ontology and De-ontologised Rationalisation of Intellectual Property
The third chapter deals with a question that is usually considered philosophical; however, it is crucial for everyday life and the social...
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Human Rights and Socio-economic Transformation in South Africa
In this article, I revisit the question of socio-economic transformation in South Africa to illustrate how it connects with human rights, essentially...
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The Indeterminacy of the Principles of Justice: The Debate on Property-Owing Democracy Versus the Welfare State and the Ideal of Social Union
In the past decade, scholars such as Samuel Freeman, Martin O’Neill, Alan Thomas and others have argued that no matter how widely Rawls’s theory of...
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Tawhidi Epistemic Theory of Abolition of Interest and Charity as Productive Spending
The continued relevance of the Tawhidi methodological worldview in respect of the Tawhidi epistemic IIE(θ(ε))-model of IPS is now opened up to...
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Theosis and Human Rights: Two Orthodox Approaches
Nathaniel Wood develops an Eastern Christian approach to human rights that is grounded in the crucial theological concept of theosis. Wood begins by...
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The Primrose Path: Rights and Autonomy
Rights are relationships in which the rightsholder is categorically entitled to be left alone (prerogative), to demand some kind of good or...
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Hegel on Political Economy and Property: Feminist Genealogies and Critiques
Two aspects of Hegel’s thought on economy in conjunction with feminist thought are the focus of this chapter: Hegel’s adoption of ideas of political...
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The Legal Dimensions of Human Rights
Along this fourth and final chapter I transfer the philosophical discourse on human rights into a proper legal dimension. I begin with a hypothesis...
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Beyond Due Diligence: the Human Rights Corporation
The modern corporation offers significant potential to contribute to the human rights project, in part because it is free from the challenges posed...