Humanité : John Humphrey's alternative account of human right / Clinton Timothy Curle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Curle, Clinton Timothy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humphrey, John P.

Human rights--Philosophy.

Human rights.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"One of the central challenges of an increasingly global society is to determine how we can affirm universal human rights while respecting the distinctive traditions of individual cultures. Contemporary debates about the concept of human rights are characterized, at their core, by difficulty negotiating the tension between the universal and the particular." "In Humanite, Clinton Timoth Curle addresses these debates, turning to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, and its primary architect, Canadian John Humphrey. Using UN records and Humphry's journals as a starting point, Curle illustrates how Humphry was profoundly influenced by the thought of Henry Bergson, and in fact regarded the Declaration as a kind of legal transliteration of his philosophy of the open society. Curle goes on to provide a careful analysis of Bergon's philosophy, and to establish an affinity between Humphry's vision of the contemporary human rights project and the Greek Patristic tradition."--Jacket

Contents:

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1 Universality, Particularity, and International Human Rights

Universality as a Problem

A Compelling Solution

A Better Way?

2 John Humphrey and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Early Works

Humphrey and the United Nations

The Drafting of the Declaration

Humphrey and the Problem of the Universality of Rights

Humphrey and Bergson

Conclusion

3 The Greek Patristic Tradition

An Apology

Gregory Palamas and Barlaam the Calabrian

The Greek Fathers: Five Thematic Distinctives

Conclusion4 John Humphrey and Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson

Bergson�s Philosophy

Bergson and the Greek Patristic Tradition

Conclusion: MacIntyre Revisited

5 Jacques Maritain and the Neo-Thomist Critique of Bergson

Maritain�s Acceptance of Neo-Thomism

Maritain�s Early Criticisms of Bergson

Maritain�s Later Criticisms of Bergson

Maritain�s Final Assessment of Bergson

A Summary of Maritain�s Critique of Bergson

6 Two Versions of Human Rights

Maritain, Natural Law, and the Open Society

Maritain and the Contemporary Human Rights ProjectMaritain and the Universality of Human Rights

Bergson and the Universality of Human Rights

A Rapprochement between Bergson and Maritain?

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4426-8444-5

OCLC:

636898463