Universal Human Rights: Moral Order in a Divided World: Philosophy and the Global Context Larry May Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Universal Human Rights

Moral Order in a Divided World

Universal Human Rights

Moral Order in a Divided World

Description

Universal Human Rights brings new clarity to the important and highly contested concept universal human rights. The Charter of the United Nations commits nearly all nations of the world to promote, to realize and take action to achieve human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, yet this formal consensus masks an underlying confusion about the philosophical basis and practical implications of rights in a world made up of radically different national communities. This collection of essays explores the foundations of universal human rights in four sections devoted to their nature, application, enforcement and limits, concluding that shared rights help to constitute a universal human community, which supports local customs and separate state sovereignty. Rights protect the benefits of cultural diversity, while recognizing the universal dignity that every human life deserves. The eleven contributors to this volume demonstrate from their very different perspectives how human rights can help to bring moral order to an otherwise divided world.

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 Part I:The Nature of Human Rights
Chapter 3 The Structure of Arguments for Human Rights
Chapter 4 Human Rights: Constitutional and International
Chapter 5 Universalism and Relativism in Human Rights
Part 6 Part II:The Particular in Universal Human Rights
Chapter 7 Are Women Human? Feminist Reflections on "Women's Rights as Human Rights"
Chapter 8 Human Rights and the Ethic of Listening
Chapter 9 Rights Against Institutions: What Governments Should and Can Do
Part 10 Part III:Enforcing Universal Human Rights
Chapter 11 Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention
Chapter 12 Genocide and Political Responsibility
Chapter 13 Human Rights and the Rule of Law: Sovereignty and the International Criminal Court
Part 14 Rights in Extremis
Chapter 15 Is Terrorism Ever Morally Permissible? An Inquiry into the Right to Life
Chapter 16 Thwarting Suicide Terrorists: The Locus of Moral Constraints and the (Ir)Relevance of "Human Rights"

Product details

Published	21 Jul 2005
Format	Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition	1st
Extent	248
ISBN	9781461646587
Imprint	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Series	Philosophy and the Global Context
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Anthology Editor

David A. Reidy

Anthology Editor

Mortimer N. S. Sellers

Contributor

Larry May

Contributor

Kenneth Henley

Contributor

Alistair Macleod

Contributor

Rex Martin

Contributor

David Duquette

Contributor

Lucinda Peach

Contributor

Helen Stacy

Contributor

William Nelson

Contributor

Suzy Kim

Contributor

Stephen Nathanson

Contributor

Jonathan Schonsheck

Although human rights discourse is becoming the recognized lingua franca of international relations, differences of justification, interpretation, application and enforcement abound. This set of original essays throws fresh light on these differences while clearly exemplifying the greater importance of the basic similarities that all parties to the debate share.

Richard T. De George, University Distinguished Professor, University of Kansas
Nine philosophers and two legal scholars contribute articles to this volume, and severla contribute significantly to this discussion.

Philosophy in Review
This impressive and timely volume brings together some of the most hotly-debated issues in the philosophical discourse on human rights and offers new ways of thinking about them. The essays raise all the hard questions on the theory and practice of human rights, providing wide-ranging and sharply contested arguments. The book is a must for anyone interested in the normative and institutional issues of human rights and their global dimensions.

Deen Chatterjee, University of Utah
Although human rights discourse is becoming the recognized lingua franca of international relations, differences of justification, interpretation, application and enforcement abound. This set of original essays throws fresh light on these differences while clearly
exemplifying the greater importance of the basic similarities that all parties to the debate share.

Richard T. De George, University Distinguished Professor, University of Kansas