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Author Kao, Grace (Grace Y.)

Title Grounding human rights in a pluralist world / Grace Kao
Published Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 239 pages)
Series Advancing human rights
Advancing human rights series.
Contents Prolegomena to any philosophical defense of human rights -- The maximalist challenge to human rights justification -- An enforcement-centered approach to human rights with special reference to John Rawls -- Consensus-based approaches to human rights -- The capability approach to human rights -- Grounding human rights in a pluralist world
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."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-224) and index
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Subject Human rights.
Cultural pluralism.
Human Rights
Cultural Diversity
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Cultural pluralism
Human rights
Mänskliga rättigheter.
Kulturell mångfald.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781589017603
1589017609