Actualizing Human Rights

This Book Argues That Ultimately Human Rights Can Be Actualized In Two Senses. By Answering Important Challenges To Them The Real-World Relevance Of Human Rights Can Be Brought Out; And People Worldwide Can Be Motivated As Needed For Realizing Human Rights.Taking A Perspective From Moral And Political Philosophy The Book Focuses On Two Challenges To Human Rights That Have Until Now Received Little Attention But That Need To Be Addressed If Human Rights Are To Remain Plausible As A Global Ideal. Firstly The Challenge Of Global Inequality: How If At All Can One Be Sincerely Committed To Human Rights In A Structurally Greatly Unequal World That Produces Widespread Inequalities Of Human Rights Protection? Secondly The Challenge Of Future People: How To Adequately Include Future People In Human Rights And How To Set Adequate Priorities Between The Present And The Future Especially In Times Of Climate Change? The Book Also Asks Whether People Worldwide Can Be Motivated To Do What It Takes To Realize Human Rights. Furthermore It Considers The Common And Prominent Challenges Of Relativism And Of The Political Abuse Of Human Rights. This Book Will Be Of Key Interest To Scholars And Students Of Human Rights Political Philosophy And More Broadly Political Theory Philosophy And The Wider Social Sciences. The Open Access Version Of This Book Available At: Https://Www.Taylorfrancis.Com/Books/9781003011569 Has Been Made Available Under A Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 License.