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Human Rights in Another Key
This is a refreshingly original analysis of human rights, past and present, which sets out major new terms of reference for political debate, it will become a standard text in the human rights field.
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192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1994
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September 26, 2015
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February 7, 2023As the author says, this is a book by a peace researcher (conflict resolution worker, as well) about human rights, coming from legal and societal considerations distilled in international works.
With rights for people attention is called to the concomitant duties appended to those rights.
A right comes with a duty too claim that right. The individual has a claim on the state, and so has the state on the individual. p. 11
. . . humans have the right to manipulate nature . . . animals and plants do not have legal standing
{not a natural entity to claim rights}, hence no rights. * * *
The human rights as they emerged remain anthropocentric. p. 15
Japanese Constitution Article 9 The Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of its nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes. p. 22
What everybody does nobody does. (what everybody owns, nobody owns. ) P. 50
. . . the US model of a group right: the Declaration of Independence, 1776. p. 51
Rights and needs p. 56 ff
. . . one may, as in the modern welfare state, gain in survival, welfare, well-being and freedom while at the same time losing in identity, buying the first three at the expense of alienation. * * * these institutions may also be a source of institutionalized non- satisfaction of the more non-material needs. p. 68
. . . satisfying human needs (and that is the purpose of the whole exercise.) p. 69
Needs: Each human being needs a minimum of survival, well-being, identity, and freedom. p. 71 !!!!!
Listing of basic human needs P. 72-3
Rights (needs ) list: right to sleep, excrete, not to be killed in war, . . .
the right to self education and education with others. p 104
the right of old people to live with their families. p. 106
hand over to our children, or at least our grandchildren, the badly needed clean environment to which they would be entitled. p. 135
. . . violence breeds violence. p. 140
The use of violence to punish the (an) aggressor neither solves conflicts not delegitimizes violence. .>> it. . . legitimizes violence.. p. 141 !!!!!!
With rights for people attention is called to the concomitant duties appended to those rights.
A right comes with a duty too claim that right. The individual has a claim on the state, and so has the state on the individual. p. 11
. . . humans have the right to manipulate nature . . . animals and plants do not have legal standing
{not a natural entity to claim rights}, hence no rights. * * *
The human rights as they emerged remain anthropocentric. p. 15
Japanese Constitution Article 9 The Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of its nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes. p. 22
What everybody does nobody does. (what everybody owns, nobody owns. ) P. 50
. . . the US model of a group right: the Declaration of Independence, 1776. p. 51
Rights and needs p. 56 ff
. . . one may, as in the modern welfare state, gain in survival, welfare, well-being and freedom while at the same time losing in identity, buying the first three at the expense of alienation. * * * these institutions may also be a source of institutionalized non- satisfaction of the more non-material needs. p. 68
. . . satisfying human needs (and that is the purpose of the whole exercise.) p. 69
Needs: Each human being needs a minimum of survival, well-being, identity, and freedom. p. 71 !!!!!
Listing of basic human needs P. 72-3
Rights (needs ) list: right to sleep, excrete, not to be killed in war, . . .
the right to self education and education with others. p 104
the right of old people to live with their families. p. 106
hand over to our children, or at least our grandchildren, the badly needed clean environment to which they would be entitled. p. 135
. . . violence breeds violence. p. 140
The use of violence to punish the (an) aggressor neither solves conflicts not delegitimizes violence. .>> it. . . legitimizes violence.. p. 141 !!!!!!
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