Why Human Rights by Eric Blumenson PAPERBACK 9780367723071

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Why Human Rights\nby Eric Blumenson\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Eric Blumenson\nTitle: Why Human Rights\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis\nPublication year: 2024\nEdition: 1\nISBN-13: 9780367723071\nISBN-10: 0367723077\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nWhy Human Rights addresses universal human rights as moral mandates rights to justice that all persons have by virtue of their humanity alone. These are not the legal rights of statutes and treaties, but moral rights of the kind Gandhi, King, and Mandela invoked to oppose unjust laws. All such rights presuppose three claims: (1) that some duties of justice apply universally, (2) that all human beings.