Human Rights on Common Grounds: The Quest for UniversalityKirsten Hastrup Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 5 Kas 2001 - 235 sayfa The universality of human rights has been extensively discussed since their inception, and most often in terms of contrasting viewpoints of universalism versus relativism. The present volume seeks to get beyond the polarization and to ask instead "in which sense" human rights are universal. The point of departure is that human rights must be universal in some sense, or they are nothing. It is meaningless to talk of human rights if they are not applicable to all humans, unconditionally. From each of their vantage points the authors explore the notion of universality in a joint effort to maintain the fundamental aspiration of the human rights documents without sidestepping the question. The authors come from such diverse fields as law, history, philosophy and anthropology, and between them they contribute in complementary ways to the never-ending quest for universality, correlating with a view of all humans being equal in dignity and rights. They are also keenly aware that the human rights project is unfinished and must always be forcefully argued for. |
İçindekiler
An Introduction | 1 |
Addressing the Sceptic | 25 |
Legal and Functional Universality | 39 |
Rights and Responsibilities | 57 |
Between the Local | 75 |
Globalising Human Rights | 91 |
Contextual Universality | 117 |
Legal Pluralism in the Human Rights Universe | 139 |
Questions from Asia | 157 |
In Dialogue with | 177 |
An Unfinished Project | 195 |
List of Contributors | 225 |
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accepted African Charter argument Article Asian Asian Values basic beliefs Bible civil and political claim concept concern Confucian constitutional constructivist context conventions Covenant cultural rights debate Declaration of Human dignity Dijk discourse discussion economic expression fact fundamental global ethics Hastrup Hebrew Bible historical human rights law human rights protection human rights standards human rights thinking human rights violations humanitarian intervention ICCPR ICESCR implementation important individual instance instant paradigm shift international community international human rights international law interpretation Kirsten Hastrup Kofi Annan legal pluralism legal positivism margin of appreciation modern moral natural law obligations opinio juris particular perspective philosophical position practice principles question ratified reason regional relation religious Religious Human respect Responsibilities Rorty rules sense simply Sinha society soft law specific theory tradition treaties UDHR UN Charter United Nations Universal Declaration universal human rights universal validity universality of human values Vienna Declaration Western
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