Abstract
A standard objection to socioeconomic human rights is that they are not claimable as human rights: their correlative duties are not owed to each human, independently of specific institutional arrangements, in an enforceable manner. I consider recent responses to this 'claimability objection', and argue that none succeeds. There are no human rights to socioeconomic goods. But all is not lost: there are, I suggest, human rights to 'socioeconomic consideration'. I propose a detailed structure for these rights and their correlative duties, while remaining neutral on substantive moral debates. I argue that socioeconomic-consideration human rights are satisfactorily claimable and sufficiently practical.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 701-722 |
Number of pages | 22 |
Journal | Philosophical Quarterly |
Volume | 66 |
Issue number | 265 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- claimability
- claims
- collective obligations
- duties
- Human rights
- socio-economic
- subsistence