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Introductory The year 2018 was the seventieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Has it aged well? Does it still have the inspiring force that made it possible for the grammar of human rights to become dominant all over the world, even when and where its universal character was contested in the name of regional or specific language of rights? Does it need to be expanded to include rights that were inconceivable in 1948?This special issue of Human Affairs is aimed at answering these and other questions connected to the idea of human rights. Although the idea itself is very old, and has been widely discussed by moral, political and legal philosophers, and more recently law theorists, historians, sociologists and anthropologists, it still creates divisions between scholars and governments, and the courts and institutions of civil society. No consensus has been reached regarding the status of human rights or the exact meaning of the adjective “human”. When the Stoics introduced the idea that all human beings are to be considered children of the same mother, of Nature, into Western philosophy, nobody was in doubt about the meaning of this appeal. Today, with the possibilities that have opened up http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Human Affairs de Gruyter

Introductory

Pinzani, Alessandro
Human Affairs , Volume 29 (3): 2 – Jul 1, 2019
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de Gruyter
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© 2019 Institute for Research in Social Communication, Slovak Academy of Sciences
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The year 2018 was the seventieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Has it aged well? Does it still have the inspiring force that made it possible for the grammar of human rights to become dominant all over the world, even when and where its universal character was contested in the name of regional or specific language of rights? Does it need to be expanded to include rights that were inconceivable in 1948?This special issue of Human Affairs is aimed at answering these and other questions connected to the idea of human rights. Although the idea itself is very old, and has been widely discussed by moral, political and legal philosophers, and more recently law theorists, historians, sociologists and anthropologists, it still creates divisions between scholars and governments, and the courts and institutions of civil society. No consensus has been reached regarding the status of human rights or the exact meaning of the adjective “human”. When the Stoics introduced the idea that all human beings are to be considered children of the same mother, of Nature, into Western philosophy, nobody was in doubt about the meaning of this appeal. Today, with the possibilities that have opened up

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Published: Jul 1, 2019

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