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Self-evident truths? : human rights and the Enlightenment /

The keywords of the Enlightenment-freedom, tolerance, rights, equality-are today heard everywhere, and they are used to endorse a wide range of positions, some of which are in perfect contradiction. While Orwell's 1984 claims that there is one phrase in the English language that resists transla...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Tunstall, Kate E. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Bloomsbury, [2012]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Part one: Human rights today : an Englightenment legacy? -- Rethinking human rights and Englightenment : a view from the twenty-first century / James Tully -- A response to James Tully / Christopher Brooke -- "That the general will is indestructible": from a citizen of Geneva to the citizens of Gaza / Karma Nabulsi -- Singular and exemplary : the theory and experience of citizenship in Rousseau. A response to Karma Nabulsi / Ourida Mostefai -- Cosmopolitanism after Kant : claiming rights across borders in a new century / Seyla Benhabib -- The making of norms versus the making of a rights-bearing subject : a response to Seyla Benhabib / Saskia Sassen -- Part two: Revolutions and declarations -- Philosophy, religion and the controversy about basic human rights in 1789 / Jonathan Israel -- A response to Jonathan Israel / Dan Edelstein -- Slavery, emancipation and human rights / Robin Blackburn -- Rights, resistance and emancipation : a response to Robin Blackburn / David Geggus -- Part three: Particular rights : the pursuit of happiness and freedom of speech -- My happiness, right or wrong? / Adam Phillips -- On being happy not to pursue happiness : a response to Adam Phillips / Patrick Mackie -- Toleration and calumny / Jeremy Waldron -- Rights persuasion : a response to Jeremy Waldron / Liora Lazarus -- Afterword : the self-evidence of human rights / Samuel Moyn. 
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