Which rights should be universal?

Talbott, W. J · New York : Oxford University Press, 2005

Nhà xuất bản: New York : Oxford University Press, 2005
Mô tả vật lý: 222 trang
ISBN: 0195173473 (alk. paper);9780195173475
Phân loại Dewey: 323
Chủ đề: Electronic books Human rights--Moral and ethical aspects Human rights--Philosophy
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident... So begins the U.S. Declaration of Independence. What follows those words is a ringing endorsement of universal rights, but it is far from self-evident. Why did the authors claim that it was? William Talbott suggests that they were trapped by a presupposition of Enlightenment philosophy: That there was only one way to rationally justify universal truths, by proving them from self-evident premises." "With the benefit of hindsight, it is clear that the authors of the U.S. Declaration had no infallible source of moral truth. For example, many of the authors of the Declaration of Independence endorsed slavery. The wrongness of slavery was not self-evident

it was a moral discovery." "In this book, William Talbott builds on the work of John Rawls, Jurgen Habermas, J.S. Mill, Amartya Sen, and Henry Shue to explain how, over the course of history, human beings have learned how to adopt a distinctively moral point of view from which it is possible to make universal, though not infallible, judgments of right and wrong. He explains how this distinctively moral point of view has led to the discovery of the moral importance of nine basic rights. Undoubtedly, the most controversial issue raised by the claim of universal rights is the issue of moral relativism. How can the advocate of universal rights avoid being a moral imperialist? In this book, Talbott shows how to defend basic individual rights from a universal moral point of view that is neither imperialistic nor relativistic."--BOOK JACKET

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001Số kiểm soát	18005
003Mã cơ quan gán số kiểm soát	DLC
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008Các yếu tố dữ liệu có độ dài cố định	040521s2005 nyu b 001 0 eng
010Số kiểm soát của thư viện quốc hội hoa kỳ	2004052064
020Số sách chuẩn quốc tế ISBN	0195173473 (alk. paper) 9780195173475
041Mã ngôn ngữ	eng
050Ký hiệu xếp giá theo phân loại thư viện quốc hội hoa kỳ	JC571 .T1445 2005
082Ký hiệu xếp giá theo phân loại thập phân dewey	323
090Vị trí tài liệu trên giá	JC571 Tal 2005
100Tiêu đề chính - Tên cá nhân	Talbott, W. J.
245Nhan đề chính	Which rights should be universal? / William J. Talbott.
246Dạng khác của nhan đề	Which rights should be universal? [electronic resource]
260Địa chỉ xuất bản, phát hành... (in ấn)	New York : Oxford University Press, 2005
300Mô tả vật lý	viii, 222 p. ; 24 cm.
504Phụ chú thư mục v.v...	Includes bibliographical references and index.
506Phụ chú về hạn chế truy cập	Online version restricted to NUS staff and students only through NUSNET.
520Tóm tắt/chú giải	"We hold these truths to be self-evident... So begins the U.S. Declaration of Independence. What follows those words is a ringing endorsement of universal rights, but it is far from self-evident. Why did the authors claim that it was? William Talbott suggests that they were trapped by a presupposition of Enlightenment philosophy: That there was only one way to rationally justify universal truths, by proving them from self-evident premises." "With the benefit of hindsight, it is clear that the authors of the U.S. Declaration had no infallible source of moral truth. For example, many of the authors of the Declaration of Independence endorsed slavery. The wrongness of slavery was not self-evident; it was a moral discovery." "In this book, William Talbott builds on the work of John Rawls, Jurgen Habermas, J.S. Mill, Amartya Sen, and Henry Shue to explain how, over the course of history, human beings have learned how to adopt a distinctively moral point of view from which it is possible to make universal, though not infallible, judgments of right and wrong. He explains how this distinctively moral point of view has led to the discovery of the moral importance of nine basic rights. Undoubtedly, the most controversial issue raised by the claim of universal rights is the issue of moral relativism. How can the advocate of universal rights avoid being a moral imperialist? In this book, Talbott shows how to defend basic individual rights from a universal moral point of view that is neither imperialistic nor relativistic."--BOOK JACKET.
530Phụ chú về hình thức vật lý bổ sung	Also available in online version.
650Tiêu đề bổ sung chủ đề - thuật ngữ chủ đề	Electronic books. Human rights--Moral and ethical aspects. Human rights--Philosophy.
999Bộ sưu tập	Tài liệu Download

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