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Author Nagan, Winston P., author.

Title Human rights and dynamic humanism / Winston P. Nagan, John A.C. Cartner, Robert J. Munro
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill Nijhoff, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 1019 pages)
Contents The perspective of dynamic humanism -- Religious values, normative precepts, and human rights -- Human rights trends in the Western history of ideas -- Ideological contributions of Celtic freedom and individualism to human rights -- Dynamic humanism and the human rights struggle -- Globalization, dynamic humanism, and human rights activism -- Emotion : love, hate, and the human rights' boundaries of the law -- Slavery, tolerated exploitation, and human trafficking -- Contextualizing genocide, apartheid, racism, mass murder -- Contextualizing torture -- Toward an affection process of human rights -- Family, gender, sexual orientation, human rights, and the affection process -- Human rights and socio-economic justice -- Intellectual property and human rights -- Truth, reconciliation, and the fragility of heroic activism -- Transitional justice : the moral foundations of trials and commissions in social and political transformation
Summary This book emphasizes a forgotten aspect of human rights, id est, to establish that human rights captures its meaning from human activism and advocacy. It explores factors which drive the advocacy of human rights integrating religious values reflected in human rights law. The book explores human rights activism in the history of ideas and the contributions of Celtic culture. It develops the framework for understanding the human rights struggle and the advocacy functions which drive it, exploring the critical role of emotion in the form of sentiment, either positive or negative, that promotes or prevents human rights violations. The negative sentiment chapter explores the major forms of human rights violations. Positive sentiment explores the role of affect, empathy and human solidarity in the promotion of the culture of human rights. Further chapters explore affect, gender, and sexual orientation, human rights and socio-economic justice, human rights and revolution, transitional justice, Indigenous human rights, nuclear weapons and intellectual property
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 10, 2019)
Subject Human rights.
Human rights -- Religious aspects.
Human rights -- Social aspects
Human rights -- Economic aspects
Transitional justice.
Human Rights
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
Human rights
Human rights -- Economic aspects
Human rights -- Religious aspects
Human rights -- Social aspects
Transitional justice
Form Electronic book
Author Cartner, John A. C., author.
Munro, Robert John, author.
LC no. 2016031126
ISBN 9004315527
9789004315525