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The Challenge of Human Rights: Origin, Development and Significance

ISBN: 978-1-4051-5241-9
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240 pages
October 2006, ©2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • Provides an engaging study of the origin and the philosophical and political development of human rights discourse.
  • Offers an original defence of human rights.
  • Explores the significance of human rights in the context of increasing globalisation.
  • Confronts the major objections to human rights, including the charge of western ethical imperialism and cultural relativism.

  • Argues that human rights logically culminate in an ethical cosmopolitanism to reflect the moral unity of the human race.

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