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| Titre : | Inherent Human Rights : Philosophical Roots of the Universal Declaration |
| Auteurs : | Johannes Morsink, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | Philadelphia [USA] : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-8122-4162-4 |
| Format : | 319 p. / index |
| Langues: | Français |
| Index. décimale : | FC/DrHo (Droits de l'Homme et dignité humaine : approche chrétienne) |
| Résumé : |
Adopted by the United Nations in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been translated into 300 languages and has become the basis for most other international human rights texts and norms. In spite of the global success of this document, however, a philosophical disconnect exists between what major theorists have said a human right is and the foundational text of the very movement they advocate.
In Inherent Human Rights: Philosophical Roots of the Universal Declaration, philosopher and political theorist Johannes Morsink offers an alternative to contemporary assumptions. A major historian of the Universal Declaration, Morsink traces the philosophical roots of the Declaration back to the Enlightenment and to a shared revulsion at the horrors of the Holocaust. He defends the Declaration's perspective that all people have human rights simply by virtue of being born into the human family and that human beings have these rights regardless of any government or court action (or inaction). Like mathematical principles, human rights are truly universal, not the products of a particular culture, economic scheme, or political system. |
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