Myth of Universal Human Rights: Its Origin, History, and Explanation, Along with a More Humane Way

Myth of Universal Human Rights: Its Origin, History, and Explanation, Along with a More Humane Way

by David N. Stamos
Myth of Universal Human Rights: Its Origin, History, and Explanation, Along with a More Humane Way

Myth of Universal Human Rights: Its Origin, History, and Explanation, Along with a More Humane Way

by David N. Stamos

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Overview

In this groundbreaking and provocative new book, philosopher of science David N. Stamos challenges the current conceptions of human rights, and argues that the existence of universal human rights is a modern myth. Using an evolutionary analysis to support his claims, Stamos traces the origin of the myth from the English Levellers of 1640s London to our modern day. Theoretical defenses of the belief in human rights are critically examined, including defenses of nonconsensus concepts. In the final chapter Stamos develops a method of naturalized normative ethics, which he then applies to topics routinely dealt with in terms of human rights. In all of this Stamos hopes to show that there is a better way of dealing with matters of ethics and justice, a way that involves applying the whole of our evolved moral being, rather than only parts of it, and that is fiction-free.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781612052427
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 06/30/2014
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

David N. Stamos teaches philosophy at York University in Toronto, Canada, and is the author of Evolution and the Big Questions (2008), Darwin and the Nature of Species (2007), and The Species Problem (2003). He has also published in a variety of journals, including Philosophy of Science, Journal of the History of Biology, Biology & Philosophy, and The Evolutionary Review.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Evolution and Universal Human Rights; Chapter 3 Scholarly Defenses of Universal Human Rights; Chapter 4 Getting the History of Human Rights Wrong; Chapter 5 Getting the History of Human Rights Right; Chapter 6 Explaining the Human Rights Epidemic; Chapter 7 Evolution, Ethics, and Justice;
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