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Inherent Human Rights : Philosophical Roots of the Universal Declaration.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (328 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812202854
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Inherent Human RightsDDC classification:
  • 323.01
LOC classification:
  • JC571 -- .M837 2009eb
Online resources:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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