Myth of Universal Human Rights
Author | : David N. Stamos |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781315633350 |
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Author | : David N. Stamos |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781315633350 |
Author | : David N. Stamos |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2015-11-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 131725578X |
In this groundbreaking and provocative new book, philosopher of science David N. Stamos challenges the current conceptions of human rights, and argues that the existence of universal human rights is a modern myth. Using an evolutionary analysis to support his claims, Stamos traces the origin of the myth from the English Levellers of 1640s London to our modern day. Theoretical defenses of the belief in human rights are critically examined, including defenses of nonconsensus concepts. In the final chapter Stamos develops a method of naturalized normative ethics, which he then applies to topics routinely dealt with in terms of human rights. In all of this Stamos hopes to show that there is a better way of dealing with matters of ethics and justice, a way that involves applying the whole of our evolved moral being, rather than only parts of it, and that is fiction-free.
Author | : David N. Stamos |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Human rights |
ISBN | : 9781612052410 |
Philosophical challenge to the idea of human rights, arguing that the existence of universal human rights is a modern myth.
Author | : Emma Larking |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2016-04-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1317069285 |
Most Western liberal democracies are parties to the United Nations Refugees Convention and all are committed to the recognition of basic human rights, but they also spend billions fortifying their borders, detaining unauthorised immigrants, and policing migration. Meanwhile, public debate over the West’s obligations to unauthorised immigrants is passionate, vitriolic, and divisive. Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights combines philosophical, historical, and legal analysis to clarify the key concepts at stake in the debate, and to demonstrate the threat posed by contemporary border regimes to rights protection and the rule of law within liberal democracies. Using the political philosophy of John Locke and Immanuel Kant the book highlights the tension in liberalism between partiality towards one’s compatriots and the universalism of human rights and brings this tension to life through an examination of Hannah Arendt’s account of the rise and decline of the modern nation-state. It provides a novel reading of Arendt’s critique of human rights and her concept of the right to have rights. The book argues that the right to have rights must be secured globally in limited form, but that recognition of its significance should spur expansive changes to border policy within and between liberal states.
Author | : Ian Wilson |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2011-08-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1459627474 |
The recent announcement that Google would digitize the holdings of several major libraries sent shock waves through the book industry and academe. Google presented this digital repository as a first step towards a long - dreamed - of universal library, but skeptics were quick to raise a number of concerns about the potential for copyright infrin...
Author | : Fareed Kazmi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Human rights |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Samuel Moyn |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2012-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674256522 |
Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.
Author | : Jenna Reinbold |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2017-01-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0812248813 |
Seeing the Myth in Human Rights explores the role of myth in the creation and propagation of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Drawing on records, publications, and speeches from the Declaration's creators as well as current scholarship on human rights, Jenna Reinbold sees the Declaration as an exemplar of modern mythmaking.
Author | : Jack Donnelly |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780801487767 |
(unseen), $12.95. Donnelly explicates and defends an account of human rights as universal rights. Considering the competing claims of the universality, particularity, and relativity of human rights, he argues that the historical contingency and particularity of human rights is completely compatible with a conception of human rights as universal moral rights, and thus does not require the acceptance of claims of cultural relativism. The book moves between theoretical argument and historical practice. Rigorous and tightly-reasoned, material and perspectives from many disciplines are incorporated. Paper edition Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Kirsten Hastrup |
Publisher | : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2001-11-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9789041116574 |
9. Limits to universality: Questions from Asia, Hatla Thelle.