Book contents
- Reviews
- Corporate Responsibility for Wealth Creation and Human Rights
- Corporate Responsibility for Wealth Creation and Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures, Tables and Boxes
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction and Overview
- 2 The Context of Globalization, Sustainability and Financialization
- Part I Wealth Creation
- Part II Human Rights as Public Goods in Wealth Creation
- 11 All Internationally Recognized Human Rights Are at Stake
- 12 Human Rights Constitute Minimal Ethical Requirements
- 13 Cost-Benefit Considerations about Human Rights as Goals, Means and Constraints
- 14 Human Rights as Public Goods
- Part III Implications of Wealth Creation and Human Rights for Corporate Responsibility
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
12 - Human Rights Constitute Minimal Ethical Requirements
from Part II - Human Rights as Public Goods in Wealth Creation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 January 2021
- Reviews
- Corporate Responsibility for Wealth Creation and Human Rights
- Corporate Responsibility for Wealth Creation and Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures, Tables and Boxes
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction and Overview
- 2 The Context of Globalization, Sustainability and Financialization
- Part I Wealth Creation
- Part II Human Rights as Public Goods in Wealth Creation
- 11 All Internationally Recognized Human Rights Are at Stake
- 12 Human Rights Constitute Minimal Ethical Requirements
- 13 Cost-Benefit Considerations about Human Rights as Goals, Means and Constraints
- 14 Human Rights as Public Goods
- Part III Implications of Wealth Creation and Human Rights for Corporate Responsibility
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
Summary
Adam Etinson distinguishes two modes of existence of human rights, which do not necessarily conflict with each other and can be complementary: the moral reality of human rights as “personally oriented, normatively necessary moral requirements” (Alain Gewirth) and the explicitly recognized human rights as norms of popular morality, political practice and legal institutions throughout the world. According to Henry Shue, human rights ought to be secured by protecting, respecting and remedying them (when violated). Gewirth offers a vigorous justification of human rights. Sen relates human rights to human capabilities (see Chapter 8). And De George’s three levels of the binding nature of ethical claims helps to define human rights as minimal ethical requirements, that is, an important part that, though, does not make up the entire realm of morality and ethics. Minimal ethical requirements are indispensable for living and working in a global and pluralistic environment.
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- Corporate Responsibility for Wealth Creation and Human Rights , pp. 124 - 137Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021