Human rights as social construction
"Benjamin Gregg believes human rights can be created by the ordinary people whom they address; are valid only if embraced by those to whom they apply; and need not be identical in all communities"-- Provided by publisher
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Cambridge, U.K. :
Cambridge University Press ,
2012
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Human rights : political not theological
- 2. Human rights : political not metaphysical
- 3. Generating universal human rights out of local norms
- 4. Cultural resources : individuals as authors of human rights
- 5. Neurobiological resources : emotions and natural altruism in support of human rights
- 6. Translating human rights into local cultural vernaculars
- 7. Advancing human rights through cognitive reframing
- 8. Human rights via human nature as cultural choice
- 9. The human-rights state
- 10. Coda : what is lost, and what gained, by human rights as social construction