Inherent Human Rights Philosophical Roots of the Universal Declaration |
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| Author:
| Morsink, Johannes |
| Series title: | Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8122-0285-4 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2012 |
| Publisher: | University of Pennsylvania Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $74.95 |
Book Description:
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Morsink asserts that all people have human rights simply by virtue of being born into the human family and that we can know these rights without the aid of experts. He shows how the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights grew out of Enlightenment principles honed by a shared revulsion at the horrors of the Holocaust.
Morsink asserts that all people have human rights simply by virtue of being born into the human family and that we can know these rights without the aid of experts. He shows how the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights grew out of Enlightenment principles honed by a shared revulsion at the horrors of the Holocaust.