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<p>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.<br><br>In <i>Inherent Human Rights: Philosophical Roots of the Universal Declaration</i>, 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

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Author

Johannes Morsink

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812217476

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Law, History

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14