The Moral Dimensions of Human Rights

Abstract

A discussion of human rights might focus on any of several different phenomena. These include ‘fundamental moral rights that one possesses as a human being’, but they also include rights conferred in international law and in national legal systems (v). Carl Wellman sometimes speaks of these as distinct ‘dimensions ’ of human rights, though a term like ‘categories ’ might be more appropriate. There is, Wellman says, ‘a complex interplay ’ between these categories of human rights, and he aims ‘to clarify these relationships and thereby contribute to our understanding and evaluation of human rights ’ (v). In early chapters of his book (especially Chs 1 and 5), Wellman takes issue with

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