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Universal human rights in theory and practice /
In the third edition of his classic work, revised extensively and updated to include recent developments on the international scene, international studies professor Jack Donnelly explains and defends a richly interdisciplinary account of human rights as universal rights. He shows that any conception...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
©2013.
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| Edición: | 3rd ed. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice ""; ""Contents""; ""Preface to the Third Edition ""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I. Toward a Theory of Human Rights""; ""1. The Concept of Human Rights""; ""1. How Rights Work""; ""2. Special Features of Human Rights""; ""3. Human Nature and Human Rights""; ""4. Human Rights and Related Practices""; ""5. Analytic and Substantive Theories""; ""6. The Failure of Foundational Appeals""; ""7. Coping with Contentious Foundations""; ""2. The Universal Declaration Model""; ""1. The Universal Declaration""; ""2. The Universal Declaration Model""
- ""3. Human Dignity and Human Rights""""4. Individual Rights""; ""5. Interdependence and Indivisibility""; ""6. The State and International Human Rights""; ""7. Respecting, Protecting, and Providing Human Rights""; ""8. Realizing Human Rights and Human Dignity""; ""3. Economic Rights and Group Rights""; ""1. The Status of Economic and Social Rights""; ""2. Group Rights and Human Rights""; ""4. Equal Concern and Respect""; ""1. Hegemony and Settled Norms""; ""2. An Overlapping Consensus on International Human Rights""; ""3. Moral Theory, Political Theory, and Human Rights""
- ""4. Equal Concern and Respect""""5. Toward a Liberal Theory of Human Rights""; ""6. Consensus: Overlapping but Bounded""; ""Part II. The Universality and Relativity""; ""5. A Brief History of Human Rights""; ""1. Politics and Justice in the Premodern Non-Western World""; ""2. The Premodern West""; ""3. The Modern Invention of Human Rights""; ""4. The American and French Revolutions""; ""5. Approaching the Universal Declaration""; ""6. Expanding the Subjects and Substance of Human Rights""; ""6. The Relative Universality of Human Rights""; ""1. “Universal� and “Relative�""
- ""2. The Universality of Internationally Recognized Human Rights""""3. Three Levels of Universality and Particularity""; ""4. Relative Universality: A Multidimensional Perspective""; ""7. Universality in a World of Particularities""; ""1. Culture and the Relativity of Human Rights""; ""2. Advocating Universality in a World of Particularities""; ""Part III. Human Rights and Human Dignity""; ""8. Dignity: Particularistic and Universalistic Conceptions in the West""; ""1. Dignitas: The Roman Roots of Dignity""; ""2. Biblical Conceptions: Kavod and Imago Dei""; ""3. Kant""
- ""4. Rights and Dignity in the West""""5. Dignity and the Foundations of Human Rights""; ""9. Humanity, Dignity, and Politics in Confucian China""; ""1. Cosmology and Ethics""; ""2. Confucians and the Early Empires""; ""3. “Neo-Confucianism� and Song Imperial Rule""; ""4. Twentieth-Century Encounters with “Rights�""; ""5. Human Rights and Asian Values""; ""10. Humans and Society in Hindu South Asia""; ""1. Cosmology""; ""2. Social Philosophy""; ""3. Caste""; ""4. Hindu Universalism""; ""5. Opposition to Caste Discrimination""; ""6. Hinduism and Human Rights in Contemporary India""