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ISBN:
9781139059626
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9781107015937
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Most conceptions of human rights rely on metaphysical or theological assumptions that construe them as possible only as something imposed from outside existing communities. Most people, in other words, presume that human rights come from nature, God, or the United Nations. This book argues that reliance on such putative sources actually undermines human rights. Benjamin Gregg envisions an alternative; he sees human rights as locally developed, freely embraced, and indigenously valid. Human rights, he posits, can be created by the average, ordinary people to whom they are addressed, and that they are valid only if embraced by those to whom they would apply. To view human rights in this manner is to increase the chances and opportunities that more people across the globe will come to embrace them.
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Cover; Human Rights as Social Construction; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Human Rights as Local Constructions of Limited but Expandable Validity; Human Rights as Politics: Social Construction Without Theology or Metaphysics; The Term "Human Rights"; Overview; PART I: THIS-WORLDLY NORMS: LOCAL NOT UNIVERSAL; 1: Human Rights: Political Not Theological; Competing Approaches to Human Rights: Socially Constructed as Distinguished from Theologically Given; Arguments Against a Theological Approach to Human Rights; Human Rights as Political Not Theological
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Socially Constructed Human Rights as a Politics of Agency2: Human Rights: Political Not Metaphysical; A Naturalist Alternative to the Metaphysics of Personhood; Not Metaphysics of Dignity but Dignity as Political Achievement; Not Metaphysics of Identity but Social Integration Through Difference; Two Kinds of Political Potential; 3: Generating Universal Human Rights out of Local Norms; Particularisms: Thick and Thin; Critical Capacity of Local Norms; Anti-Imperialism by Means of Local Self-Representation; PART II: THIS-WORLDLY RESOURCES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AS SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION
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4: Cultural Resources: Individuals as Authors of Human RightsAssertive Selfhood; Features of Self-Authorship; Field of Recognition; Limits of the Project for Self-Granted Human Rights; 5: Neurobiological Resources: Emotions and Natural Altruism in Support of Human Rights; Human Nature as Biological Not Metaphysical or Theological; Encouraging Altruism Through Social Structure and Personality Structure; Reason and Emotion Intertwine; Embracing Emotion-Based Human Rights via Altruistic Fictive Kinship; Emotion-Relevant Goals of the Human Rights Project
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Is the Deployment of Emotion in Support of Human Rights Necessarily Manipulative?PART III: THIS-WORLDLY MEANS OF ADVANCING THE HUMAN RIGHTS IDEA; 6: Translating Human Rights into Local Cultural Vernaculars; Translation Transforms Local Culture; Transformation Without Precluding Local "Authenticity" and "Legitimacy"; Transformation Resonating with and Challenging Local Culture; Transformation via "Dual Consciousness" at Local Levels; "Dual Consciousness" and Duality of Roles: Outside Intermediary and Local Participant; Uneasy Dualism: Cultural Integrity and Human Rights
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Limits of This Approach7: Advancing Human Rights through Cognitive Reframing; Against Essentializing Approaches to Culture; Cognitive Aspects of Culture as Distinguished from Normative Aspects; Rendering Human Rights Internal to a Community's Self-Understanding; Human Rights as Cognitive Community, and Cognitive Community as Learning Process; Cognitive Reframing; PART IV: HUMAN RIGHTS, FUTURE TENSE: HUMAN NATURE AND POLITICAL COMMUNITY RECONCEIVED; 8: Human Rights via Human Nature as Cultural Choice; "Second Nature": Human Nature as Cultural Choice
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Human Nature as Cultural Choice: Human Rights Instead of Re-enchantment
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Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Menschenrecht
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139059626
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