LEADER 03527nam 2200601 450 001 9910456384703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-8444-5 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442684447 035 $a(CKB)2430000000002084 035 $a(OCoLC)636898463 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10269840 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000382116 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11281387 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000382116 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10392399 035 $a(PQKB)10874863 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672331 035 $a(DE-B1597)464011 035 $a(OCoLC)944177141 035 $a(OCoLC)999360514 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442684447 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3261252 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672331 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11258001 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000002084 100 $a20160923h20072007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHumanite? $eJohn Humphrey's alternative account of human right /$fClinton Timothy Curle 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2007. 210 4$dİ2007 215 $a1 online resource (225 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8020-9261-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Universality, Particularity, and International Human Rights -- $t2. John Humphrey and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- $t3. The Greek Patristic Tradition -- $t4. John Humphrey and Henri Bergson -- $t5. Jacques Maritain and the Neo-Thomist Critique of Bergson -- $t6. Two Versions of Human Rights -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aContemporary 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. 606 $aHuman rights$xPhilosophy 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHuman rights$xPhilosophy. 676 $a323/.01 700 $aCurle$b Clinton Timothy$0990081 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456384703321 996 $aHumanite?$92264606 997 $aUNINA