The Point and Ground of Human Rights

A Kantian Constructivist View

Authors

  • Rainer Forst Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main
  • Jutta H. Wester Fundación Intercambio Cultural Alemán-Latinoamericano (ICALA), Río Cuarto, Argentina Translator https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1059-4677
  • María Cristina Reigadas Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Translator

Keywords:

Human Rights;, Constructivism;, Kant;, Habermas

Abstract

Translation by Jutta H. Wester and M. Cristina Reigadas:

Rainer Forst (2016), The Point and Ground of Human Rights: A Kantian Constructivist View. En Davis Held y Pietro Maffettone (Eds.). Global Political Theory (págs. 22 – 39). Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA: Polity Press. 

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The Point and Ground of Human Rights: A Kantian Constructivist View. (2021). Revista Ética Y Discurso, 6, 1-29. http://qellqasqa.com.ar/ojs/index.php/eyd/article/view/500