Rights-Based Ethics

Part 1: Introduction Introduction: Rights-Based Ethics - Outline of an Approach Part 2: Conceptual and Foundational Questions 1. Why a Rights-Based Ethics? 2. Human Dignity as Absolute Inner Value and Moral Status 3. Reason and Moralities: The Prudential Foundations of Ethics in Alan Gewirth's Procedural Rationalism 4. Proving a Categorical Imperative by the Possibility of Self-Contradiction: The Paradox of Method in a Critique of Practical Reason 5. Conceptual Tools for the Analysis of Rights 6. The Problem of Aggregation in a Rights-based Moral Theory 7. What Do I Morally Owe to Myself? On the Moral Right to Freedom and Duties to Oneself in Alan Gewirth's Right-based Ethics Part 3: Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Rights 8. Rights, Coercion and the Will of the People. On the Relationship between Politics and Normativity in Marsilius of Padua 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 4: Rights in Contexts of Applied Ethics 10. On a Freedom-Based Concept of Person and Its Bioethical Consequences 11. Moral Rights as Criteria for Professional Nursing Care 12. How Should One Respond to Climate Change? A Rights-Based Ethical Theory's Approach to the Problem 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 14. Rights-Based Ethics: A Family Dispute 15. Balancing Rights While Protecting the Climate 16. Too Big to Fail Banks, Private Credit Creation, and Systemic Risks: Challenges of a Modern Ethics of Risk Part 5: Outlook 17. On the Foundations and Implications of Moral Rights