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Title of Journal: Hum Rights Rev
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Abbravation: Human Rights Review
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Springer Netherlands
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Authors: Edward Eugene Kleist
Publish Date: 2007/09/18
Volume: 8, Issue: 4, Pages: 427-430
Abstract
Robert Paul Churchill’s Human Rights and Global Diversity a title in the Basic Ethics in Action series should not be confused with a different book of the same title edited by Caney and Jones Churchill’s book appropriate for use in undergraduate courses provides a wellorganized philosophical overview of its topic HRGDis divided into three chapters 1 Reasoning about Human Rights 2 Debating the Universality of Human Rights 3 Human Rights and Cross Cultural Negotiations It also includes two useful appendices A Human Rights Treaties and Covenants B Human Rights NGOs The book’s short length invites the covertocover reading desirable for a reasonably complete survey of the topic Students lacking preparation in philosophy should find the brief explanations of the nature of the philosophical strategies valuable Churchill manages to discuss compare and integrate the arguments of a number of different theorists among the most prominent of whom are Dworkin Donnelly
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