Grounding human rights in a pluralist world / Grace Y. Kao.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

(Grace Y.) Kao.

Contributor:

Grace.

Series:

Advancing human rights series.

Advancing human rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Cultural pluralism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

1版.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which declared that every human being, without ""distinction of any kind,"" possesses a set of morally authoritative rights and fundamental freedoms that ought to be socially guaranteed. Since that time, human rights have arguably become the cross-cultural moral concept and evaluative tool to measure the performance -- and even legitimacy -- of domestic regimes. Yet questions remain that challenge their universal validity and theoretical bases. Some theorists are ""maximalist"" in their insiste

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One: Prolegomena to Any Philosophical Defense of Human Rights; Two: The Maximalist Challenge to Human Rights Justification; Three: An Enforcement-Centered Approach to Human Rights, with Special Reference to John Rawls; Four: Consensus-Based Approaches to Human Rights; Five: The Capability Approach to Human Rights; Six: Grounding Human Rights in a Pluralist World; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781589017603

1589017609

OCLC:

713010195