The sacredness of the person a new genealogy of human rights /
What are the origins of the idea of human rights and universal human dignity? How can we most fully understand -- and realize -- these rights going into the future? In The Sacredness of the Person, internationally renowned sociologist and social theorist Hans Joas tells a story that differs from con...
Основен автор: | Joas, Hans, 1948- |
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Формат: | Електронен |
Език: | English German |
Публикувано: |
Washington, D.C. :
Georgetown University Press,
℗♭2013.
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Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=569022 |
Съдържание:
- Introduction
- The charisma of reason
- The genesis of human rights
- Punishment and respect
- The sacralization of the person and the forces threatening it
- Violence and human dignity
- How experiences become rights
- Neither Kant nor Nietzsche
- What is affirmative genealogy?
- Soul and gift
- The human being as image and child of god
- Value generalization
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the plurality of cultures.