Metaethics of Human Rights: An Expressivist Approach
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Metaethics of Human Rights: An Expressivist Approach
Original language description
Moral objectivity can be understood in different ways. I will compare two approaches here. The metaphysical realism presupposes a strong conception of moral objectivity. According to this view, human rights are not only morally justified claims of people, but they are somehow built into the world itself. On the other hand, the expressivism prefers a weaker conception of moral objectivity which can be explained by the very nature of moral reasoning. In any process of moral justification, speakers express their moral attitudes that presuppose the claim to objectivity. The disadvantage of metaphysical realism is the epistemic uncertainty about the existence and content of moral reality. This permanent doubt has a perilous potential to slip into deep moral scepticism. I will conclude that human rights are objective at least in the weaker sense. The objectivity of human rights is nothing supernatural, it is an entirely human matter. This weak conception of objectivity is not encoded in non-natural reality, but rather in the way we think and talk about human rights.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50501 - Law
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA20-10464S" target="_blank" >GA20-10464S: Contextual Relations of Justification of Human Rights as a Problem of Legal Philosophy</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Rechtstheorie
ISSN
0034-1398
e-ISSN
1865-519X
Volume of the periodical
50
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
27
Pages from-to
493-519
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
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