Humanite: John Humphry's Alternative / / Clinton Curle.

Contemporary debates about the concept of human rights are characterized, at their core, by difficulty negotiating the tension between the universal and the particular. One of the central challenges of an increasingly global society is to determine how we can affirm universal human rights while resp...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (212 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Universality, Particularity, and International Human Rights
  • 2. John Humphrey and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  • 3. The Greek Patristic Tradition
  • 4. John Humphrey and Henri Bergson
  • 5. Jacques Maritain and the Neo-Thomist Critique of Bergson
  • 6. Two Versions of Human Rights
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index