Inherent Human Rights : Philosophical Roots of the Universal Declaration.
Title:
Inherent Human Rights : Philosophical Roots of the Universal Declaration.
Author:
Morsink, Johannes.
ISBN:
9780812202854
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (328 pages)
Series:
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: The Need to Think Beyond the Political -- 1. The Metaphysics of Inherence -- 2. Obeying the Conscience of Humanity -- 3. The Shortcomings of the Golden Rule -- 4. Human Rights Cosmopolitanism -- 5. The Charge of Unrealistic Utopianism -- 6. Human Rights and Democratic Participation -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments.
Abstract:
Morsink asserts that all people have human rights simply by virtue of being born into the human family and that we can know these rights without the aid of experts. He shows how the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights grew out of Enlightenment principles honed by a shared revulsion at the horrors of the Holocaust.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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