The Concept of ‘Human Dignity’in the Post-War Human Rights Debates

Kivistö, Hanna-Mari

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The Concept of ‘Human Dignity’in the Post-War Human Rights Debates

dc.contributor.author	Kivistö, Hanna-Mari
dc.date.accessioned	2023-11-13T11:21:11Z
dc.date.available	2023-11-13T11:21:11Z
dc.date.issued	2012
dc.description.abstract	The paper explores early post-war human rights language by looking at the drafting of the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), with a focus especially on the concept of ‘dignity’. ‘Human dignity’ has been regarded as a central, even undisputable concept in discourse related to human rights since the Second World War. The first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states how “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood”. By looking at the preparatory work on thefirst article,and the related political choices and conceptual disputes, the paper will emphasise the political and rhetorical character of the concept of ‘human dignity	es
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dc.format.extent	10	es
dc.identifier.citation	Res Publica: Revista de Filosofía Política, 27 (2012)	es
dc.identifier.issn	1576-4184
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/135612
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid	es
dc.relation	Sin financiación externa a la Universidad	es
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Dignity	es
dc.subject	Human rights	es
dc.subject	Rhetoric	es
dc.subject	Universal Declaration of Human Rights	es
dc.subject.other	CDU::3 - Ciencias sociales::32 - Política	es
dc.title	The Concept of ‘Human Dignity’in the Post-War Human Rights Debates	es
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
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