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Human rights as social construction /

"Benjamin Gregg believes human rights can be created by the ordinary people whom they address; are valid only if embraced by those to whom they apply; and need not be identical in all communities"--Provided by publisher

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gregg, Benjamin Greenwood, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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
  • Human rights : political not theological
  • Human rights : political not metaphysical
  • Generating universal human rights out of local norms
  • Cultural resources : individuals as authors of human rights
  • Neurobiological resources : emotions and natural altruism in support of human rights
  • Translating human rights into local cultural vernaculars
  • Advancing human rights through cognitive reframing
  • 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.