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082	0	4	_a323.01
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aMorsink, Johannes _eautore
245	1	0	_aInherent Human Rights : _bPhilosophical Roots of the Universal Declaration / _cJohannes Morsink.
264		1	_aPhiladelphia : _bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, _c[2012]
264		4	_c©2009
300			_a1 online resource (328 p.)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
490	0		_aPennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tIntroduction: The Need to Think Beyond the Political -- _tChapter 1. The Metaphysics of Inherence -- _tChapter 2. Obeying the Conscience of Humanity -- _tChapter 3. The Shortcomings of the Golden Rule -- _tChapter 4. Human Rights Cosmopolitanism -- _tChapter 5. The Charge of Unrealistic Utopianism -- _tChapter 6. Human Rights and Democratic Participation -- _tNotes -- _tIndex -- _tAcknowledgments
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aConfronting the evils of World War II and building on the legacy of the 1776 Declaration of Independence and the 1789 French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, a group of world citizens including Eleanor Roosevelt drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Adopted by the United Nations in 1948, the Universal Declaration 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. Our understanding of their existence can be blocked only by madness and false ideologies. Morsink argues that the drafters of the Declaration shared this metaphysical view of human rights. By denying the inherence of human rights and their metaphysical nature, and removing the concepts of the Declaration from their historical and philosophical context, contemporary constructivist scholars and pragmatic activists create an unnecessary and potentially dangerous political fog. The book carefully dissects various human rights models and ends with a defense of the Declaration's cosmopolitan vision against charges of unrealistic utopianism and Western ethnocentrism.Inherent Human Rights takes exception to the reigning view that the Golden Rule is the best defense of human rights. Instead, it calls for us to "follow the lead of the Declaration's drafters and liberate the idea of human rights from the realm of the political and the juridical, which is where contemporary theorists have imprisoned it."
530			_aIssued also in print.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)
650		0	_aHuman rights _xHistory _x20th century.
650		0	_aHuman rights _xHistory _y20th century.
650		4	_aHuman Rights.
650		7	_aLAW / International. _2bisacsh
653			_aHuman Rights.
653			_aLaw.
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812202854
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812202854
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812202854/original
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