The challenge of human rights : origin, development, and significance / Jack Mahoney.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mahoney, John, 1931-
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
Subjects:
Human rights.
Human rights > History.
Human rights > Philosophy.
Physical Description:x, 215 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Human rights in history
  • The ancient classical world
  • The world of the Bible
  • The medieval world
  • Renaissance and Reformation thought
  • Hobbes and Rousseau
  • Revolution in England
  • American independence
  • The French declaration of the rights of man
  • English resistance to human rights
  • German developments : Kant and Marx
  • The modern human rights movement
  • The charter of the United Nations Organization
  • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  • Continental developments
  • The 1993 Vienna World Conference on Human Rights
  • Wider human rights developments
  • British developments
  • Clarifying human rights
  • Some useful distinctions
  • Rights and duties
  • The proliferation of rights
  • Individuals-in-society
  • Selfishness and social divisiveness
  • Ethical imperialism?
  • A challenge to all cultures
  • The strengths of human rights
  • Establishing human rights
  • A matter of belief
  • An essential requirement
  • The nature of persons
  • Intuitionist approaches. Human dignity
  • "The wonder of our being"
  • Major opponents
  • The globalizing of human rights
  • Global expansion
  • Seeking a global ethic
  • Cultural relativism
  • Global human rights
  • Towards cosmopolitanism
  • The inadequacies of states
  • "Principled" cosmopolitanism
  • Human solidarity.