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.
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Physical Description:x, 215 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-204) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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