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This document creates a list of what is now commonly accepted as individual rights, including political rights; civil rights; social, economic, and cultural rights; and more broadly conceptualized rights of development and freedom from poverty, which also fit under the umbrella term of human rights (Landman, 2006).
The development of the auteur theory and the subsequent controversy over it can be traced both chronologically and geographically. It can be fol- lowed from its start in 1954 and brought up to the present; similarly it can be considered as a flow from France to England and on to the United States.
This book aims to explicate and defend an account of human rights as universal rights. I do not, however, argue that human rights are timeless, unchanging, or absolute. Quite the contrary, I show that any list or conception of human rights—and the idea of human rights itself—is historically specific and contingent.
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Human rights can be seen as primarily ethical demands. They are not principally “legal,” “proto-legal” or “ideal-legal” commands. Even though human rights can, and often do, inspire legislation, this is a further fact, rather than a constitutive characteristic of human rights.
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- The Determinants of Human Rights
- The Moral-Universal (Re)Conceptualization of The Image of Man
- The Concept of Human Rights in Modern Times
- Political and Legal Rights vs. Social Rights: Tension and Chance
Despite the above-mentioned ambivalences and distortions inherent in human rights thinking, the human rights narrative has always been largely presented as a consensual concept in terms of its value and content. Those who argue that human rights are universal and inalienable, and that every human being is born free and equal, do so on the assumptio...
The image of man based on the appreciation of his mere existence as a sufficient reason to respect him was first systematically worked out as part of the theory of natural law in Greek and Roman antiquity. This “first epoch”Footnote 27 of human rights thinking was later developed further in this sense that “Graeco-Roman thinking and Christian eleme...
The locations listed above represent balancing acts that seek to combine universal provisions of human rights and their implementation both in social life and in legal regulations. These localizations were neither significant in a practical sense, nor did they have a liberal and egalitarian character in society as a whole. With the development of m...
The philosophical-theoretical conceptions of human rights presented so far since antiquity and their incorporation into legal regulations have entered a qualitatively new phase since the French Revolution,Footnote 56 manifesting themselves in debates about the relationship between the individual and the state as a legal relationship. Using Hobbes a...
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Jan 21, 2017 · Reconciling Critical Theory systematically with liberal legal principles, Habermas argues for a global constitutionalization of human rights which builds on existing innovations in international law since 1945, including internationally binding conventions, treaties, and charters addressing human rights.
This thesis not only offers a sociological version of traditional notions of natural or inalienable rights, but also attempts to provide a sociological alternative to enlightenment theories of social contract and individual rights.
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