Human Rights and Human Nature

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Albers, Marion (Editor), Hoffmann, Thomas (Editor), Reinhardt, Jörn (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, 35
• Subjects: Law.; Political science.; Behavioral sciences.; Law > Philosophy.; Anthropology.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Philosophy of Law.; Behavioral Sciences.

This book explores both the possibilities and limits of arguments from human nature in the context of human rights. Can the concept of human nature provide a basis for understanding fundamental rights? Is it plausible to justify the claim to universal validity of human rights by reference to human n...