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  • 12 - Human Rights Constitute Minimal Ethical Requirements

  • from Part II - Human Rights as Public Goods in Wealth Creation
  • Georges Enderle, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
  • Book:
    Corporate Responsibility for Wealth Creation and Human Rights
    Published online:
    11 January 2021
    Print publication:
    28 January 2021, pp 124-137

  • 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.