Human rights are not enough: a critical assessment of challenges of inequality and care for international human rights

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dc.contributor.authorHarbour, Sophie
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-04T12:44:18Z
dc.date.available2019-11-04T12:44:18Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionUniversity of Witwatersrand Department of Political Science A thesis submitted for Masters By Research 2019en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis thesis takes human rights and presents two contemporary critiques that find fault in the ability of the concept to adequately address current moral crises and to found a theory of moral reasoning moving forward. What will develop is an argument that human rights are not enough to be the starting point from where we form our ideas of moral theory and political and social policy. They do not provide a framework that recognises the indelibly dependent nature of human existence embodied by the ethics of care and they are ill-equipped to adequately counteract the growing radical inequality which has considerable social, political and moral consequences. Aside from critiquing human rights, an ethics of care also serves as a potential starting point from whence to reassess how we understand political and social realities. It offers insights into how we might approach the question of ‘why inequality matters’ and it is a lens through which I see possibilities of expanding our ideas of motivation, power, vulnerability and language, amongst othersen_ZA
dc.description.librarianM T 2019en_ZA
dc.format.extentOnline resource (170 leaves)
dc.identifier.citationHarbour, Sophie Elizabeth (2019) Human rights are not enough:|ba critical assessment of the challenges of inequality and care for international human rights, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, <http://hdl.handle.net/10539/28337>
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/28337
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshHuman rights--South Africa
dc.subject.lcshCivil rights
dc.subject.lcshApartheid
dc.subject.lcshSouth Africa--Politics and government
dc.titleHuman rights are not enough: a critical assessment of challenges of inequality and care for international human rightsen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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