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| Contents |
Human rights in history -- The ancient classical world -- The world of the Bible -- The medieval world -- Renaissance and Reformation thought -- Hobbes and Rousseau -- Revolution in England -- American independence -- The French declaration of the rights of man -- English resistance to human rights -- German developments : Kant and Marx -- The modern human rights movement -- The charter of the United Nations Organization -- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Continental developments -- The 1993 Vienna World Conference on Human Rights -- Wider human rights developments -- British developments -- Clarifying human rights -- Some useful distinctions -- Rights and duties -- The proliferation of rights -- Individuals-in-society -- Selfishness and social divisiveness -- Ethical imperialism? -- A challenge to all cultures -- The strengths of human rights -- Establishing human rights -- A matter of belief -- An essential requirement -- The nature of persons -- Intuitionist approaches. Human dignity -- "The wonder of our being" -- Major opponents -- The globalizing of human rights -- Global expansion -- Seeking a global ethic -- Cultural relativism -- Global human rights -- Towards cosmopolitanism -- The inadequacies of states -- "Principled" cosmopolitanism -- Human solidarity. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-204) and index. |
| LCCN | 2006002736 |
| ISBN | 1405152400 (hbk) |
| ISBN | 9781405152402 (hbk) |
| ISBN | 1405152419 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9781405152419 (pbk.) |
