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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Holocaust

An Endangered Connection

By: Johannes Morsink

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Holocaust

An Endangered Connection

By: Johannes Morsink

Johannes Morsink argues that the 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the human rights movement today are direct descendants of revulsion to the Holocaust and the desire to never let it happen again. Much recent scholarship about human rights has severed this link between the Holocaust, the Universal Declaration, and contemporary human rights activism in favor of seeing the 1970s as the era of genesis. Morsink forcefully presents his case that the Universal Declaration was indeed a meaningful though underappreciated document for the human rights movement and that the declaration and its significance cannot be divorced from the Holocaust. He reexamines this linkage through the working papers of the commission that drafted the declaration as well as other primary sources. This work seeks to reset scholarly understandings of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the foundations of the contemporary human rights movement.

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1626166293

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights for a New Generation

By: Johannes Morsink

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights for a New Generation

By: Johannes Morsink

Johannes Morsink is Professor Emeritus of Political Philosophy at Drew University. He is author of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Drafting, and Intent and Inherent Human Rights: Philosophical Roots of the Universal Declaration, both of which are available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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Pennsylvania Studies in Human

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0812225031

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Inherent Human Rights

Philosophical Roots of the Universal Declaration

By: Johannes Morsink

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Inherent Human Rights

Philosophical Roots of the Universal Declaration

By: Johannes Morsink

Confronting the evils of World War II and building on the legacy of the 1776 Declaration of Independence and the 1789 French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, a group of world citizens including Eleanor Roosevelt drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Adopted by the United Nations in 1948, the Universal Declaration has been translated into 300 languages and has become the basis for most other international human rights texts and norms. In spite of the global success of this document, however, a philosophical disconnect exists between what major theorists have said a human right is and the foundational text of the very movement they advocate. In Inherent Human Rights: Philosophical Roots of the Universal Declaration, philosopher and political theorist Johannes Morsink offers an alternative to contemporary assumptions. A major historian of the Universal Declaration, Morsink traces the philosophical roots of the Declaration back to the Enlightenment and to a shared revulsion at the horrors of the Holocaust. He defends the Declaration's perspective that all people have human rights simply by virtue of being born into the human family and that human beings have these rights regardless of any government or court action (or inaction). Like mathematical principles, human rights are truly universal, not the products of a particular culture, economic scheme, or political system. Our understanding of their existence can be blocked only by madness and false ideologies. Morsink argues that the drafters of the Declaration shared this metaphysical view of human rights. By denying the inherence of human rights and their metaphysical nature, and removing the concepts of the Declaration from their historical and philosophical context, contemporary constructivist scholars and pragmatic activists create an unnecessary and potentially dangerous political fog. The book carefully dissects various human rights models and ends with a defense of the Declaration's cosmopolitan vision against charges of unrealistic utopianism and Western ethnocentrism. Inherent Human Rights takes exception to the reigning view that the Golden Rule is the best defense of human rights. Instead, it calls for us to "follow the lead of the Declaration's drafters and liberate the idea of human rights from the realm of the political and the juridical, which is where contemporary theorists have imprisoned it.

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Holocaust

An Endangered Connection

By: Johannes Morsink

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Origins, Drafting, and Intent

By: Johannes Morsink

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Origins, Drafting, and Intent

By: Johannes Morsink

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1999 Born of a shared revulsion against the horrors of the Holocaust, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has become the single most important statement of international ethics. It was inspired by and reflects the full scope of President Franklin Roosevelt's famous four freedoms: "the freedom of speech and expression, the freedom of worship, the freedom from want, and the freedom from fear." Written by a UN commission led by Eleanor Roosevelt and adopted in 1948, the Declaration has become the moral backbone of more than two hundred human rights instruments that are now a part of our world. The result of a truly international negotiating process, the document has been a source of hope and inspiration to thousands of groups and millions of oppressed individuals.

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0812200411

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Inherent Human Rights

Philosophical Roots of the Universal Declaration

By: Johannes Morsink

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Philosophical Roots of the Universal Declaration

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights for a New Generation

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights for a New Generation

By: Johannes Morsink

The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is one of the most important and debated sociopolitical documents of the twentieth century. A leading authority on the UDHR, Johannes Morsink is the author of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Drafting, and Intent (2000) and Inherent Human Rights: Philosophical Roots of the Universal Declaration (2009). With this new book, Morsink has now written a volume for a new generation of human rights students and activists, one that presents an article-by-article account of the formulation of each article in the UDHR. The author comments perceptively on how they have been argued, argued over, and used in a wide range of political discourses. Comprised of short essays on each of the Declaration's thirty articles, this book constitutes the most accessible and comprehensive approach to this document and explicates the UDHR's continued relevance in contemporary times. Throughout the book, Morsink explains how this 1948 iconic text can help us in the twenty-first century. He shows us the high moral ground we need to fight evils perpetuated during and after World War II that now present themselves in new garb and does so in a clear and concise manner.

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0812298136

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Human Rights or Religious Rules?

By: Johannes A. van der Ven

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Human Rights or Religious Rules?

By: Johannes A. van der Ven

The relation between religion and human rights is a contested one, as they appear to compete with one another. Religion is often considered to represent a tradition of heteronomy and subordination in premodern times. Human rights emerged from early modern and modern times and stand for principles like human dignity, autonomy, equality. The first question in this book is how to define religion, its meaning, functions and structures, and how to study it. The second question is how to understand religion from its relation with human rights in such a way that justice is done to both religion and human rights. These questions are dealt with using a historical and systematic approach. The third question is what the impact of religion might be on attitudes towards human rights, i.e. human rights culture. For an answer, empirical research is reported among about 1000 students, Christians, Muslims, and nonreligious, at the end of secondary and the beginning of tertiary education in the Netherlands.

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BRILL

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900418886X

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Aftermath of the CFA Franc Devaluation

By: Mr.Stéphane Cossé,Mr.Johannes Mueller,Mr.Jean Le Dem,Mr.Jean A. P. Clément

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Aftermath of the CFA Franc Devaluation

By: Mr.Stéphane Cossé,Mr.Johannes Mueller,Mr.Jean Le Dem,Mr.Jean A. P. Clément

Developments in the countries of the CFA franc zone in the aftermath of the January 1994 devaluation of the CFA franc are reviewed in this paper. Following a summary of the new adjusment strategy, the papers describes the progress made and the difficulties encountered during 1994 and early 1995 in implementing the programs supported by use of IMF resources.

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International Monetary Fund

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1557755612

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Russia and the Right to Self-Determination in the Post-Soviet Space

By: Johannes Socher

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Russia and the Right to Self-Determination in the Post-Soviet Space

By: Johannes Socher

The right to self-determination is renowned for its lack of clear interpretation. Broadly speaking, one can differentiate between a 'classic' and a 'romantic' tradition. In modern international law, the balance between these two opposing traditions is sought in an attempt to contain or 'domesticate' the romantic version by limiting it to 'abnormal' situations, that is cases of 'alien subjugation, domination and exploitation'. This book situates Russia's engagement with the right to self-determination in this debate. It shows that Russia follows a distinct approach to self-determination that diverges significantly from the consensus view in international state practice and scholarship, partly due to a lasting legacy of the former Soviet doctrine of international law. Against the background of the Soviet Union's role in the evolution of the right to self-determination, the bulk of the study analyses Russia's relevant state practice in the post-Soviet space through the prisms of sovereignty, secession, and annexation. Drawing on analysis of all seven major secessionist conflicts in the former Soviet space and a detailed study of Russian sources and scholarship, it traces how Russian engagement with self-determination has changed over the past three decades. Ultimately, the book argues that Russia's approach to the right of peoples to self-determination should not only be understood in terms of power politics disguised as legal rhetoric but in terms of a continuously assumed regional hegemony and exceptionalism, based on balance-of-power considerations.

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Oxford University Press

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0192651722

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Religion in Process

An Approach Inspired by Human Dignity, Rights, and Reasonableness

By: Johannes A. van der Ven

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Religion in Process

An Approach Inspired by Human Dignity, Rights, and Reasonableness

By: Johannes A. van der Ven

This book argues that contemporary Christianity is in crisis because freedom of religion is concealed and under pressure by secularization and migration. A drastic change is necessary - in the Catholic Church at first - from a God-given hierarchical structure to a democratic religion that rests on human dignity and human rights.The text conveys that such a change -that should happen from within- will put an end to challenges such as in Catholicism where outside human rights are promoted, but from inside a different story is told. Cultural change in religion is also covered with the move from centuries-old dictates to the reasonable justification of freedom of experiences, symbols, rituals and inter-religious intercourse as well as the cross communication between believers and non-believers alike. This approach makes religion an as yet unfinished religion. The text appeals to researchers and academics working in human rights and religion.

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Springer Nature

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3030583910

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Shpol'skii Spectroscopy and Other Site-Selection Methods

Applications in Environmental Analysis, Bioanalytical Chemistry, and Chemical Physics

By: Johannes W. Hofstraat

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Shpol'skii Spectroscopy and Other Site-Selection Methods

Applications in Environmental Analysis, Bioanalytical Chemistry, and Chemical Physics

By: Johannes W. Hofstraat

Recent technological breakthroughs, most notably in the field of lasers as well as detection and data processing, have made it possible to apply high-resolution molecular spectroscopy to such areas as environmental science, bioanalysis, and chemical physics. This book describes recent advances and applications of high-resolution molecular spectroscopy in low temperature solid matrices.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471245089

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Challenge of Religion

By: Johannes Morsink

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Challenge of Religion

By: Johannes Morsink

Repulsed by evil Nazi practices and desiring to create a better world after the devastation of World War II, in 1948 the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Because of the secular imprint of this text, it has faced a series of challenges from the world’s religions, both when it was crafted and in subsequent political and legal struggles. The book mixes philosophical, legal, and archival arguments to make the point that the language of human rights is a valid one to address the world’s disputes. It updates the rationale used by the early UN visionaries and makes it available to twenty-first-century believers and unbelievers alike. The book shows how the debates that informed the adoption of this pivotal normative international text can be used by scholars to make broad and important policy points.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826273610

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Holocaust

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Holocaust

Article by Article

Article by Article

Inherent Human Rights

Inherent Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Holocaust

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Holocaust

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Inherent Human Rights

Inherent Human Rights

Article by Article

Article by Article

Human Rights or Religious Rules?

Human Rights or Religious Rules?

Aftermath of the CFA Franc Devaluation

Aftermath of the CFA Franc Devaluation

Russia and the Right to Self-Determination in the Post-Soviet Space

Russia and the Right to Self-Determination in the Post-Soviet Space

Religion in Process

Religion in Process

Shpol'skii Spectroscopy and Other Site-Selection Methods

Shpol'skii Spectroscopy and Other Site-Selection Methods

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Challenge of Religion

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Challenge of Religion

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