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Questioning The Universality Of Human Rights, Paul J. Magnarella
Questioning The Universality Of Human Rights, Paul J. Magnarella
Human Rights & Human Welfare
A review of:
Universal Human Rights? edited by Robert G. Patman. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. 244pp.
and
Dealing with Human Rights: Asian and Western Views on the Value of Human Rights edited by Martha Meijer. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2001. 183pp.
and
The Philosophy of Human Rights by Patrick Hayden. St. Paul: Paragon House, 2001. 686pp.
Surprised By Sin: Human Rights And Universality, Tawia Baidoe Ansah
Surprised By Sin: Human Rights And Universality, Tawia Baidoe Ansah
Faculty Publications
International human rights law's claim to universality, at the level of normative formation, has been shaped by conceptions of the self over time. The metaphysical reconfigurations of the self, from the Enlightenment to the present, have marked the human rights narrative in particular ways. This essay will suggest that since World War II, a conception of the self within a narrative of rights has been replaced, or at least countermanded, by a conception of sacral evil, with profound implications for the normative claim to universality of the human rights discourse. The essay begins with a synoptic analysis of the rise …