The Limits Of Common Humanity

Author : Samuel Jarvis
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780228012962

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The Limits of Common Humanity by Samuel Jarvis Pdf

What motivates states to protect populations threatened by mass atrocities beyond their own borders? Most often, states and their representatives appeal to the principle of common humanity, acknowledging a conscience-shocking quality that demands a moral response. But though the idea of a common humanity is powerful, the question remains: to what extent is it effective in motivating action? The Limits of Common Humanity provides an ambitious interdisciplinary response to this question, theorizing the role of humanity as a motivational concept by building on insights from international relations, political philosophy, and international law. Through this analysis, Samuel Jarvis examines the influence the concept of humanity has had on the creation and mission of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) commitment, while highlighting the challenges that have restricted its application in practice. By providing a new framework for thinking about how political, legal, and moral arguments interact during the process of collective decision-making, Jarvis explores the contradictory ways in which states approach the protection of human beings from mass atrocity crimes, both domestically and internationally. In the context of a rapidly changing global order, The Limits of Common Humanity is a timely reappraisal of the R2P concept and its future application, arguing for a more politically motivated response to human protection that moves beyond an appeal for morality.

Author : Raimond Gaita
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780415241137

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A Common Humanity by Raimond Gaita Pdf

This profound and arresting book draws on a wealth of examples to paint a provocative new picture of our common humanity.

Author : S. Yenor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137539595

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David Hume’s Humanity by S. Yenor Pdf

Scott Yenor argues that David Hume's reputation as a skeptic is greatly exaggerated and that Hume's skepticism is a moment leading Hume to defend common life philosophy and the humane commercial republic. Gentle, humane virtues reflect the proper reaction to the complex mixture of human faculties that define the human condition.

Author : United Nations
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210051491

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Achieving our Common Humanity by United Nations Pdf

Achieving our Common Humanity: Celebrating Global Cooperation through the United Nations portrays landmark accomplishments of the United Nations in supporting peace and security, promoting and protecting human rights, fostering economic and social development, and shaping international law. Amply illustrated with photographs, charts, maps and infographics, and featuring a wealth of information on how the United Nations serves the peoples of the world, this book depicts a wide range of challenges that the Organization has met and successful initiatives that it has conceived and spearheaded as a matter of common purpose among nations in favour of collective human progress. Its rich tapestry of stories explores the diverse ways in which the United Nations fights poverty, combats climate change and protects the environment, undertakes to transform conflicts into peace, helps refugees thrive, supports sharing the benefits of technology, works to stop the spread of infectious diseases and reduce the risk of disasters, and helps render justice for all and ensure the rights of women and children. While recounting decisive innovations at the level of global policy and international agreement, Achieving our Common Humanity also provides a view of how such changes have significantly improved the lives of affected individuals around the world. These remarkable stories show how the United Nations, with its ambitious and evolving vision for the shared prosperity of people and planet, is helping create a better world for everyone.

Author : Katell Berthelot,Matthias Morgenstern
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004201651

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The Quest for a Common Humanity by Katell Berthelot,Matthias Morgenstern Pdf

This volume explores the development of the idea of a common humanity for all human beings from Antiquity to the present time focussing on the "other" as "neighbour, enemy, and infidel", on the interpretation of the Biblical story of Abraham ́s sacrifice and on ancient and modern ethical and legal implications of the concept of human dignity.

Author : Lane Van Ham
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816501212

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A Common Humanity by Lane Van Ham Pdf

As debate about immigration policy rages from small towns to state capitals, from coffee shops to Congress, would-be immigrants are dying in the desert along the US–Mexico border. Beginning in the 1990s, the US government effectively sealed off the most common border crossing routes. This had the unintended effect of forcing desperate people to seek new paths across open desert. At least 4,000 of them died between 1995 and 2009. While some Americans thought the dead had gotten what they deserved, other Americans organized humanitarian aid groups. A Common Humanity examines some of the most active aid organizations in Tucson, Arizona, which has become a hotbed of advocacy on behalf of undocumented immigrants. This is the first book to examine immigrant aid groups from the inside. Author Lane Van Ham spent more than three years observing the groups and many hours in discussions and interviews. He is particularly interested in how immigrant advocates both uphold the legitimacy of the United States and maintain a broader view of its social responsibilities. By advocating for immigrants regardless of their documentation status, he suggests, advocates navigate the conflicting pulls of their own nation-state citizenship and broader obligations to their neighbors in a globalizing world. And although the advocacy organizations are not overtly religious, Van Ham finds that they do employ religious symbolism as part of their public rhetoric, arguing that immigrants are entitled to humane treatment based on universal human values. Beautifully written and immensely engaging, A Common Humanity adds a valuable human dimension to the immigration debate.

Author : Raimond Gaita
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135199173

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A Common Humanity by Raimond Gaita Pdf

The Holocaust and attempts to deny it, racism, murder, the case of Mary Bell. How can we include these and countless other examples of evil within our vision of a common humanity? These painful human incongruities are precisely what Raimond Gaita boldly harmonizes in his powerful new book, A Common Humanity. Hatred with forgiveness, evil with love, suffering with compassion, and the mundane with the precious. Gaita asserts that our conception of humanity cannot be based upon the empty language of individual rights when it is our shared feelings of grief, hope, love, guilt, shame and remorse that offer a more potent foundation for common understanding. Drawing on the work of Hannah Arendt, Simon Weil, Primo Levi, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch and Sigmund Freud, Gaita creates a beautifully written and provocative new picture of our common humanity.

Author : Siep Stuurman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674977518

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The Invention of Humanity by Siep Stuurman Pdf

For much of history, strangers were seen as barbarians, seldom as fellow human beings. The notion of common humanity had to be invented. Drawing on global thinkers, Siep Stuurman traces ideas of equality and difference across continents and civilizations, from antiquity to present-day debates about human rights and the “clash of civilizations.”

Author : Susanne Kaul,David Kim
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110387292

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Imagining Human Rights by Susanne Kaul,David Kim Pdf

Why is it that human rights are considered inviolable norms of justice at local and global scales although the number of their violations has steadily increased in modern history? On the surface, this paradox seems to be reducible to a straightforward discrepancy between idealism and reality in humanitarian affairs, but Imagining Human Rights complicates the picture by offering interdisciplinary perspectives on the imaginary status of human rights. By that the contributors mean not merely subject to imagination, open to interpretation or far too abstract, but also formative of a social imaginary with emphatic identifications and shared values. From a variety of disciplinary perspectives, they explore critical ways of engaging in rigorous interdisciplinary conversations about the origin and language of human rights, personal dignity, redistributive justice, and international solidarity. Together, they show how and why a careful examination of the intersection between disciplinary investigations is essential for imagining human rights at large. Examples range from the legitimacy of land ownership rights and the inadequacy of human faculty to make sense of mass violence in visual representation to the stewardship of human rights promoters and the genealogy of human rights.

Author : Bardo Fassbender,Knut Traisbach
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198824756

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The Limits of Human Rights by Bardo Fassbender,Knut Traisbach Pdf

What are the limits of human rights, and what do these limits mean? This volume engages critically and constructively with this question to provide a distinct contribution to the contemporary discussion on human rights. Fassbender and Traisbach, along with a group of leading experts in the field, examine the issue from multiple disciplinary perspectives, analysing the limits of our current discourse of human rights. It does so in an original way, and without attempting to deconstruct, or deny, human rights. Each contribution is supplemented by an engaging comment which furthers this important discussion. This combination of perspectives paves the way for further thought for scholars, practitioners, students, and the wider public. Ultimately, this volume provides an exceptionally rich spectrum of viewpoints and arguments across disciplines to offer fresh insights into human rights and its limitations.

Author : Sheela Pawar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317006121

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Trusting Others, Trusting God by Sheela Pawar Pdf

Trusting Others, Trusting God is an investigation of the concepts of moral and religious trust. The question of why or how it is rational to trust anyone has been the typical focus of philosophers, with an underlying assumption that trust must be justified. In most cases, trust (even – or perhaps especially religious trust) is portrayed as irrational. Sheela Pawar argues that a grammatical investigation of the concept of trust can help rectify this mistreatment.

Author : Joanne R. Bauer,Daniel A. Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999-02-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521645360

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The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights by Joanne R. Bauer,Daniel A. Bell Pdf

This book identifies the more persuasive contributions by East Asian intellectuals to the international human rights debate.

Author : Michael J. Sandel
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781429942584

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What Money Can't Buy by Michael J. Sandel Pdf

Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars? Auctioning admission to elite universities? Selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? In What Money Can't Buy, Michael J. Sandel takes on one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Is there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don't belong? What are the moral limits of markets? In recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life—medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. Is this where we want to be?In his New York Times bestseller Justice, Sandel showed himself to be a master at illuminating, with clarity and verve, the hard moral questions we confront in our everyday lives. Now, in What Money Can't Buy, he provokes an essential discussion that we, in our market-driven age, need to have: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society—and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets don't honor and that money can't buy?

Author : Kwame Gyekye
Publisher : CRVP
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 156518193X

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Beyond Cultures by Kwame Gyekye Pdf

Author : Véronique Pin-Fat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135282479

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Universality, Ethics and International Relations by Véronique Pin-Fat Pdf

This text introduces students to the key debates about ethics in international relations theory.