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100 1 $aMahoney, John,$d1931-
245 14 $aThe challenge of human rights :$borigin, development, and significance /$cJack Mahoney.
260 $aMalden, MA ;$aOxford :$bBlackwell Pub.,$c2007.
300 $ax, 215 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [191]-204) and index.
505 0 $aHuman 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.
650 0 $aHuman rights.
650 0 $aHuman rights$xHistory.
650 0 $aHuman rights$xPhilosophy.
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