02494 - Political Philosophy

Course contents

The Course is dedicated to the theme: Human rights today:

1) Fundamental individual rights and human rights in the 1948 universal Declaration.

2) Fundamental rights and human rights in the age of the globalization:

a) Kymlicka

b) Sen

c) Ignatieff

d) Ferrajoli

3) The international guarantees of the human rights:

a) Guarantees “universal”

b) Guarantees “regional”

c) Human Rights and customary international right

d) Human Rights and world public opinion

4) Human rights and developed countries:

a) The “reasonable duration of the trial” in Italy

b) The law n.40 on the assisted procreation and the basic search in Italy on the staminal cells of embryonic origin

c) The anticipated declaration of treatment and the “biological testament”

d) The pacts of civil solidarity and the unions or cohabitations of fact

Readings/Bibliography

A. De Gennaro, The rights in West. Individual rights and western political-social philosophy, Bononia University Press, Bologna, 2006.

A. De Gennaro, Human rights today. New individual rights and human rights, Bononia University Press, Bologna, 2010.

Teaching methods

You will try to focus the historicity of the distinction between fundamental individual rights and human rights

Assessment methods

The examination will consist in the discussion of a short paper compiled by the student through: a) the choice of a matter of the Course; b) deepening of this last through the Texts of the course; c) finally using the Optional Bibliography (www.spbo.unibo.it/Pais/PoliticalPhilosophy).

Links to further information

http://didattica.spbo.unibo.it/pais/

Office hours

See the website of Antonio De Gennaro