Philosophical Foundation of Human Rights

Paul Tiedemann, born in 1950, holds a doctorate in law and philosophy and was a judge in the administrative jurisdiction of Hesse until his retirement in 2015. From 1988 to 2004, he also taught administrative and constitutional law at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Management and Security in Wiesbaden administrative and constitutional law and from 2004 to 2007 philosophy of law at Saarland University. In 2007, he founded the first German Refugee Law Clinic at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen and was appointed honorary professor there in 2012. In addition, he was an adjunct professor at Özyeğin University in Istanbul from 2012 to 2018 and a member of the board of the Research Institute for German Law there.

• Introduction.- Utilitarian and Aristotelian Approach.- The Social Contract Approach.- The Human-Dignity-Approach.- The Human-Dignity-Principle I.- The Human-Dignity-Principle II.- From Human Dignity to Human Rights.- Human Rights concerning the Protection of Physical and Mental Integrity.- Rights under Detention.- Human Rights concerning the protection of Intellectual Integrity.- Human Right to Privacy.- Human Right to the Freedom of Conscience.- Human Right to Spiritual Freedom.- Human Right to Life.- Social Human Rights.- The Right to Asylum.- Fake Human Rights.- The Principle of Liberty.- The Principle of Equality.- Rights in Conflict.- Do you still remember – the answers.