Challenge of Human Rights Origin, Development and Significance

Name: Challenge of Human Rights Origin, Development and Significance
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ISBN: 9781405152419

ISBN-10: 1405152419

ISBN-13: 9781405152419

Edition: 2007

Authors: Jack Mahoney, Jack Mahoney

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'The Challenge of Human Rights' is a study of the origin and the philosophical and political development of human rights discourse. It confronts many of the major objections to human rights, such as the charge of western ethical imperialism, and argues that human rights logically culminate in an ethical cosmopolitanism.

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List price: $42.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/13/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.05" wide x 9.05" long x 0.52" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Human Rights in History


The Ancient Classical World


The World of the Bible


The Medieval World


Renaissance and Reformation Thought


Hobbes and Rousseau


Revolution in England


American Independence


The French Declaration of the Rights of Man


English Resistance to Human Rights


German Developments: Kant and Marx



The Modern Human Rights Movement


The Charter of the United Nations Organization


The Universal Declaration of Human Rights


Continental Developments


The 1993 Vienna World Conference on Human Rights


Wider Human Rights Developments


British Developments


Conclusion



Clarifying Human Rights


Some Useful Distinctions


Rights and Duties


The Proliferation of Rights


Individuals-in-Society


Selfishness and Social Divisiveness


Ethical Imperialism?


A Challenge to All Cultures


The Strengths of Human Rights



Establishing Human Rights


A Matter of Belief


An Essential Requirement


The Nature of Persons


Intuitionist Approaches


Human Dignity


"The Wonder of Our Being"


Major Opponents


Conclusion



The Globalizing of Human Rights


Global Expansion


Seeking a Global Ethic


Cultural Relativism


Global Human Rights


Towards Cosmopolitanism


The Inadequacies of States


"Principled" Cosmopolitanism


Human Solidarity


Bibliography


Index