On Human Rights Griffin James
On Human Rights Griffin James What is a human right? How do we establish the content of particular human rights, and how do we resolve conflicts between them? How can we tell whether a proposed human…
Specifikacia On Human Rights Griffin James
On Human Rights Griffin James
What is a human right? How do we establish the content of particular human rights, and how do we resolve conflicts between them? How can we tell whether a proposed human right really is one?
James Griffin offers answers in his compelling new investigation of the foundations of human rights.First, On Human Rights traces the idea of a natural right from its origin in the late Middle Ages, when the rights were seen as deriving from natural laws, through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when the original theological background was progressively dropped and 'natural law' emptied of most of its original meaning. These are pressing questions for philosophers, political theorists, jurisprudents, international lawyers, and activists. By the end of the Enlightenment, the term human rights (droits de l'homme) appeared, marking the purge of the theological
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