A critical legal conception of human dignity

McManus, Matthew

doi:10.1080/14754835.2018.1544485

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“…Human beings are individuated in their context which means that while we are shaped by the environment, it is an aspect of our human dignity that we can, at the same time, exert influence on our environment. As McManus (2019) writes "it can be easy to think that, as all individuals are to some extent unchangeably determined by biological laws, so too is who we are necessarily determined by the political, cultural, legal, and economic arrangements particular to the sociohistorical context we inhabit. Unger called on us to reject this "false necessity" and recognise that all sociohistorical contexts, as the product of deliberate human activity and even design, are ultimately characterised by their plasticity" (p. 63).…”

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Interpreting human rights as the social psychological phenomenon of rights claiming

Drazenovich

Stroink

2023

Int J Psychol

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In the last 5 years, the intersection between psychology and human rights has become more evident, with influential international, national and local human rights institutions, including the American Psychological Association, issuing reports and resolutions on the topic. Within jurisprudence, human rights are less of a legalistic regulatory enactment and more of what social psychologists refer to as injunctive norms. We argue that conceptualising human rights as the social‐psychological process of both creating and aligning injunctive and descriptive norms clarifies human rights and makes them more accessible to groups and individuals in society engaged in rights claiming. Rights claiming is a term we use to describe the moral cognitive process of people engaged in individual and/or collective behaviour aimed at securing their social identity within the public sphere where that identity is marginalised or the subject of discrimination. We argue that placing rights claiming at the centre of human rights psychology advances human rights. Focusing psychological research on social identity, the alignment of injunctive norms, deontic moral cognitions, human dignity, social dominance orientations and collective and individual behaviours forms part of securing a clear specialty in psychological science dedicated to human rights and advancing the American Psychological Association (APA)'s human rights mandate.

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“…Kant argued that human beings possess a capacity to will their own ends (Mcmanus, 2019, p. 58). This capacity to will one's own end is a cognitive and behavioural one.…”

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