Part1: Introduction Introduction: Rights-Based Ethics ? Outline of an Approach
Part2: Conceptual and Foundational Questions
1. Why a Rights-Based Ethics?
2. Human Dignity as Absolute Inner Value and Moral Status
3. Reason and Moralities: The Prudential Foundations of Ethics in Alan Gewirth‘s Procedural Rationalism
4. Proving a Categorical Imperative by the Possibility of Self-Contradiction: The Paradox of Method in a Critique of Practical Reason
5. Conceptual Tools for the Analysis of Rights
6. The Problem of Aggregation in a Rights-based Moral Theory
7. What Do I Morally Owe to Myself? On the Moral Right to Freedom and Duties to Oneself in Alan Gewirth’s Right-based Ethics
Part3: Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Rights
8. Rights, Coercion and the Will of the People. On the Relationship between Politics and Normativity in Marsilius of Padua
9. Do Immoralists Suffer a Loss of Meaning in Life? A Focus on Gewirth’s Theory of Self-Fulfillment and Metz’s Fundamentality Theory
Part4: Rights in Contexts of Applied Ethics
10. On a Freedom-Based Concept of Person and Its Bioethical Consequences
11. Moral Rights as Criteria for Professional Nursing Care
12. How Should One Respond to Climate Change? A Rights-Based Ethical Theory’s Approach to the Problem
13. Standard Threats and (Mandatory) Human Rights Due Diligence in Global Supply Chains: On the Corporate Responsibility to Address Human Rights Abuses Committed by Third Parties
14. Rights-Based Ethics: A Family Dispute
15. Balancing Rights While Protecting the Climate
16. Too Big to Fail Banks, Private Credit Creation, and Systemic Risks: Challenges of a Modern Ethics of Risk
Part5: Outlook
17. On the Foundations and Implications of Moral Rights