The Book on Social Justice & Human Rights: Social Justice and Human Rights in the Philippines Alberto T. Muyot
Material type: TextPublication details: Diliman, Quezon City UP, NCPAG c2003Description: xii, 920 pages illus; bookpaper 25.5cmISBN:- 971-542-325-6
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This paper addresses the question of the normative domains of human rights and social justice. Today, the dominant view in political philosophy is that they occupy largely distinct spheres, with social justice being a set of stronger egalitarian norms and human rights functioning as baseline protections against common threats posed by states to the general interests of persons subjected to them. Reflecting on current human rights practice and discourse, this paper develops a reconstructed normative model of social justice and human rights as nested membership norms in political societies. By connecting membership to processes of political legitimacy, human rights are conceptualized as increasingly functioning as the language of contesting and reforming barriers of exclusion to that status. This leads to an understanding of the possible content of human rights that is dynamic and relational, bringing it closer in line with the egalitarianism of social justice. Keywords: human rights; social justice; political legitimacy; membership
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