Human rights as social construction / Benjamin Gregg.
"Benjamin Gregg believes human rights can be created by the ordinary people whom they address; are valid only if embraced by those to whom they apply; and need not be identical in all communities"--Provided by publisher
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Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York :
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Human rights as local constructions of limited but expandable validity
- Human rights : political not theological
- Human rights : political not metaphysical
- Generating universal human rights out of local norms
- Cultural resources : individuals as authors of human rights
- Neurobiological resources : emotions and natural altruism in support of human rights
- Translating human rights into local cultural vernaculars
- Advancing human rights through cognitive reframing
- Human rights via human nature as cultural choice
- The human rights state
- Coda. What is lost, and what gained, by human rights as social construction.