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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456384703321

Autore

Curle Clinton Timothy

Titolo

Humanité : John Humphrey's alternative account of human right / / Clinton Timothy Curle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

1-4426-8444-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

323/.01

Soggetti

Human rights - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Universality, Particularity, and International Human Rights -- 2. John Humphrey and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- 3. The Greek Patristic Tradition -- 4. John Humphrey and Henri Bergson -- 5. Jacques Maritain and the Neo-Thomist Critique of Bergson -- 6. Two Versions of Human Rights -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Contemporary debates about the concept of human rights are characterized, at their core, by difficulty negotiating the tension between the universal and the particular. One of the central challenges of an increasingly global society is to determine how we can affirm universal human rights while respecting the distinctive traditions of individual cultures.To address this challenge, Clinton Timoth Curle turns to John Humphrey, an oft-ignored Canadian who is chiefly responsible for the United Naitons' Declaration of Human Rights. Using Humphry's journals as a starting point, Curle illustrates how Humphry was profoundly influenced by the philosophy of Henry Bergson, and in fact regarded the Declaration as a kind of legal transliteration of Bergson's philosophy of the open society. Curle goes on to provide a careful analysis of Bergon's philosophy, and to establish an affinity between Humphry's vision of the contemporary human rights project and the Greek Patristic tradition.Curle concludes that the Universal



Declaration of Human Rights, understood in a Bergsonian context, provides us with a way to affirm in the modern context that there is a ground to human fellowship which is transcendent and which offers a basis to establish a universal ethics without a radical homogenization of cultures.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910164017103321

Autore

St. Clair Caroline

Titolo

Exploring bioinformatics : a project-based approach / / Caroline St. Clair, Jonathan E. Visick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Burlington, Massachusetts : , : Jones & Bartlett Learning, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-284-02346-X

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (373 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Disciplina

572.330285

Soggetti

Bioinformatics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Bioinformatics and genomic data: investigating a complex genetic disease -- Computational manipulation of DNA: genetic screening for disease alleles -- Sequence alignment: investigating an influenza outbreak -- Database searching and multiple alignment: investigating antibiotic resistance -- Substitution matrices and protein alignments: virulence factors in e. coli -- Distance measurement in molecular phylogenetics: evolution of mammals -- Tree building in molecular phylogenetics: the three domains of life -- DNA sequencing: identification of novel viral pathogens -- Sequence-based gene prediction: annotation of a resistance plasmid.