Universal Human Rights : Moral Order in a Divided World

by Reidy, David A.

• ISBN13: 9780742548602
• ISBN10: 0742548600
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-30
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

Universal Human Rights brings new clarity to the important and highly contested concept of universal human rights. This collection of essays explores the foundations of universal human rights in four sections devoted to their nature, application, enforcement, and limits, concluding that shared rights help to constitute a universal human community, which supports local customs and separate state sovereignty. The eleven contributors to this volume demonstrate from their very different perspectives how human rights can help to bring moral order to an otherwise divided world. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(16)
David A. Reidy
Mortimer N. S. Sellers
Part I The Nature of Human Rights
The Structure of Arguments for Human Rights	17	(20)
Alistair M. Macleod
Human Rights: Constitutional and International	37	(22)
Rex Martin
Universalism and Relativism in Human Rights	59	(22)
David Duquette
Part II The Particular in Universal Human Rights
Are Women Human? Feminist Reflections on ``Women's Rights as Human Rights''	81	(28)
Lucinda Joy Peach
Human Rights and the Ethic of Listening	109	(18)
Helen Stacy
Rights against Institutions: What Governments Should and Can Do	127	(14)
William Nelson
Part III Enforcing Universal Human Rights
Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention	141	(14)
Steven P. Lee
Genocide and Political Responsibility	155	(18)
Larry May
Human Rights and the Rule of Law: Sovereignty and the International Criminal Court	173	(16)
Kenneth Henley
Part IV Rights in Extremis
Is Terrorism Ever Morally Permissible? An Inquiry into the Right to Life	189	(20)
Stephen Nathanson
Thwarting Suicide Terrorists: The Locus of Moral Constraints and the (Ir)Relevance of ``Human Rights''	209	(20)
Jonathan Schonsheck
Index	229	(8)
About the Editors and Contributors	237