The Community of Rights
The Community of Rights

Author: Alan Gewirth

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780226288819

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The Community of Rights provides a detailed explication of the fundamental rights of agency as derived from a single rationally justified principle of morality and develops the contents of economic and social rights as a basic part of human rights. A critical alternative to both "liberal" and "communitarian" views, this authoritative work will command the attention of anyone engaged in the debate over social and economic justice.

The Handbook of Community Practice
The Handbook of Community Practice

Author: Marie Weil

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 968

ISBN-13: 1412987857

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Encompassing community development, organizing, planning, & social change, as well as globalisation, this book is grounded in participatory & empowerment practice. The 36 chapters assess practice, theory & research methods.

Human Rights in Commonwealth Africa
Human Rights in Commonwealth Africa

Author: Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780847674336

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To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.

Human Rights from Below
Human Rights from Below

Author: Jim Ife

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-11-12

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1139482378

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In Human Rights from Below, Jim Ife shows how human rights and community development are problematic terms but powerful ideals, and that each is essential for understanding and practising the other. Ife contests that practitioners - advocates, activists, workers and volunteers - can better empower and protect communities when human rights are treated as more than just a specialist branch of law or international relations, and that human rights can be better realised when community development principles are applied. The book offers a long overdue assessment of how human rights and community development are invariably interconnected. It highlights how critical it is to understand the two as a basis for thinking about and taking action to address the serious challenges facing the world in the twenty-first century. Written both for students and for community development and human rights workers, Human Rights from Below brings together the important fields of human rights and community development, to enrich our thinking of both.

Spirit Of Community
Spirit Of Community

Author: Amitai Etzioni

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1994-05-24

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0671885243

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Explains how Americans need to develop or restore a sense of community in order to reconstruct society.

Law and Community in Three American Towns
Law and Community in Three American Towns

Author: Carol J. Greenhouse

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780801481697

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Carol J. Greenhouse, Barbara Yngvesson, and David M. Engel analyze attitudes toward the law as a way of commentating on major American myths and ongoing changes in American society.

Applied Ethics in a Troubled World
Applied Ethics in a Troubled World

Author: Edgar Morscher

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1998-03-31

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9780792349655

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The 23 papers that were prepared for a 1991 symposium that was cancelled beneath the weight of public and professional protests at some of the speakers invited, particularly Peter Singer. They analyze the application of theoretical considerations arising from philosophical reflection to particular concrete cases and situations of moral conflict in such fields as the environment, biology and medicine, business and professions, politics, law, and society. Among the topics are a philosophical critique of legal rights for natural objects, comparing the value of human and nonhuman life, business ethics as a goal-rights system, liberal society and planned morality, and moral philosophy and its function. No subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Persons, Rights, and the Moral Community
Persons, Rights, and the Moral Community

Author: Loren E. Lomasky

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1990-07-26

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0195362357

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This book provides a complete and convincing account of what rights we do and do not have, who has them, and why. Presenting the foundations of a liberal, individualistic theory of rights, Lomasky explains the place of rights within the overall structure of morality, arguing for the moral importance of individual commitments to and pursuit of "projects." After developing his theory of basic rights, Lomasky demonstrates its implications for a variety of problems and issues, including property rights, the rights of children, and the status of the unborn, defective persons, animals, and even the dead. Arguing for a fundamental reshaping of philosophical ethics, Lomasky develops a credible alternative to currently fashionable views.

Human Rights from Community
Human Rights from Community

Author: Oche Onazi

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2016-06-30

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0748654704

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Poverty, exclusion and lack of participation are symptomatic of state and market-based approaches to human rights. Oche Onazi uses Nigeria as a case study to show how the idea of community is a better alternative, capable of inspiring the poor and the vul