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Human rights as social construction /
"Most conceptions of human rights rely on metaphysical or theological assumptions that construe them as possible only as something imposed from outside existing communities. Most people, in other words, presume that human rights come from nature, God, or the United Nations. This book argues tha...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2012]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. Human rights as local constructions of limited but expandable validity
- This-worldly norms : local not universal. Human rights : political not theological
- Human rights : political not metaphysical
- Generating universal human rights out of local norms
- This-worldly resources for human rights as social construction. Cultural resources : individuals as authors of human rights
- Neurobiological resources : emotions and natural altruism in support of human rights
- This-worldly means of advancing the human rights idea. Translating human rights into local cultural vernaculars
- Advancing human rights through cognitive reframing
- Human rights, future tense : human nature and political community reconceived. Human rights via human nature as cultural choice
- The human rights state
- Coda. What is lost, and what gained, by human rights as social construction.