Humanité : John Humphrey's alternative account of human rights /
"One of the central challenges of an increasingly global society is to determine how we can affirm universal human rights while respecting the distinctive traditions of individual cultures. Contemporary debates about the concept of human rights are characterized, at their core, by difficulty ne...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
©2007.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Universality, Particularity, and International Human Rights
- Universality as a Problem
- A Compelling Solution
- A Better Way?
- 2 John Humphrey and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Early Works
- Humphrey and the United Nations
- The Drafting of the Declaration
- Humphrey and the Problem of the Universality of Rights
- Humphrey and Bergson
- Conclusion
- 3 The Greek Patristic Tradition
- An Apology
- Gregory Palamas and Barlaam the Calabrian
- The Greek Fathers: Five Thematic Distinctives
- Conclusion4 John Humphrey and Henri Bergson
- Henri Bergson
- Bergson�s Philosophy
- Bergson and the Greek Patristic Tradition
- Conclusion: MacIntyre Revisited
- 5 Jacques Maritain and the Neo-Thomist Critique of Bergson
- Maritain�s Acceptance of Neo-Thomism
- Maritain�s Early Criticisms of Bergson
- Maritain�s Later Criticisms of Bergson
- Maritain�s Final Assessment of Bergson
- A Summary of Maritain�s Critique of Bergson
- Conclusion
- 6 Two Versions of Human Rights
- Maritain, Natural Law, and the Open Society
- Maritain and the Contemporary Human Rights ProjectMaritain and the Universality of Human Rights
- Bergson and the Universality of Human Rights
- A Rapprochement between Bergson and Maritain?
- Conclusion
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Z