Does The Dao Support Individual Autonomy And Human Rights?

Personal Identity, Individual Autonomy and Group Rights

It is a commonplace in liberal circles that individual persons have a right to individual autonomy or self-determination. Each mentally competent adult has a right to be at liberty to live and shape their own life in accordance with their own view about what makes for a good life, free from undue coercion or interference by others, so long as they do not harm others. In the words of John Stuart...

Human Rights, Autonomy and National Sovereignty

This paper examines the legal and ethical problems involved in reconciling two separate rights, each of which plays a fundamental role in the current philosophical debate surrounding international relations and international law: the right to national sovereignty to which many states lay claim, on the one hand, and the right to selfdetermination, on the other. Refusal to grant the right of self...

The primacy of human autonomy: understanding agent rights through the human rights framework

This paper is concerned with the ‘rights’ of autonomous agent systems in relation to human users or operators and specifically addresses the question of when and to what extent an agent system may take over control from someone. I start by examining an important ethical code of conduct for system designers and engineers and argue that one would do well to understand it within the human rights f...

"Human Rights"؛ "Citizen Rights"؛ "Human Rights Declaration"؛ " Middle Eastern States"

حقوق بشر و حقوق شهروندی از حقوق ذاتی و طبیعی انسان نشأت گرفته و در طول تاریخ بین اندیشمندان مناطق مختلف جهان و همچنین در مکاتب الهی توجه خاصی به آنها شده است. اما متاسفانه تا پایان جنگ جهانی دوم حقوق بشر بصورت گسترده اقبالی کسب ننمود. اگر چه با اعلامیه جهانی حقوق بشر سال 1948 و دیگر کنوانسیون های مربوطه، حقوق بشر شکل جهان شمولی بخود گرفته ولی هنوز بسیاری از دولتهای خاورمیانه حاضر به پذیرش تمامی...

Red Reason and Green Rights Illuminationist.Anthropology and Human Rights