Human right to water, justice ... or sham? [electronic resource] : the legal, philosophical, and theological background of the new human right to water / Evelyne Fiechter-Widemann ; translated by Andrene Everson ; foreword by Asit K. Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fiechter-Widemann, Evelyne (Author)
Other Authors: Biswas, Asit K. (writer of foreword.)
Tortajada, Cecilia (writer of foreword.)
Everson, Andrene (Translator)
Language:English
Language and/or Writing System:
Translated from French to English.
Published: Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, [2017]
Subjects:
Right to water.
Right to water > Moral and ethical aspects.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2017 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2017 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Human Right to Water: Justice ... or Sham?: the Legal, Philosophical, and Theological Background of the New Human Right to Water
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Foreword / Asit K. Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada
  • The concept of "globality"
  • "Thinking" water in terms of its vulnerability, through case studies
  • "Thinking" the human relationship to water : the phenomenology of vulnerability
  • "Thinking" the human in need
  • "Thinking" human beings in terms of their dignity
  • Two areas of focus
  • A new role for civil society
  • Is the human right to water an ethical normativity or a legal one?
  • Scientific normativity for water
  • Economic/political and legal normativities for water
  • Thinking and conceptualizing mobilization for potable water
  • Possible bases
  • Creating a space for dialogue about the human right to water
  • A theological inquiry into natural law from ABRAHAM through the Apostle Paul and the Church Fathers to Calvin
  • Philosophical inquiry concerning natural law from Grotius to the human right to water via Kant and Bonhoeffer
  • Dentological motives for action, or "thinking" water philosophically with Immanuel Kant
  • Eudaemonist and anti-eudaemonist motives for action, or how to "think" water emotionally
  • Empirical and utilitarian motives for action, or how to "think" water for the well-being of all
  • Justice for the "other" human being, the one who thirsts
  • Does the reality affect us and make us responsible?
  • Responsibility : a problematic concept
  • Intergenerational ethics
  • Intragenerational ethics
  • What kind of justice should apply to universal access to potable water?
  • Solicitude and love as a means to supererogatory justice : the golden rule concept
  • "Thinking" water differently : theologically
  • General conclusion.