Human Rights and their Limits by Wiktor Osiaty?ski (English) Hardcover Book

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Human Rights and their Limits deals with social, political, cultural, and ethical issues related to human rights. In this book, Osiatyski argues that, although rights are a prerequisite of freedom, they should be balanced with other values that are indispensable for social harmony and personal happiness.

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Human Rights and their Limits shows that the concept of human rights has developed in waves: each call for rights served the purpose of social groups that tried to stop further proliferation of rights once their own goals were reached. While defending the universality of human rights as norms of behavior, Osiatyski admits that the philosophy on human rights does not need to be universal. Instead he suggests that the enjoyment of social rights should be contingent upon the recipient's contribution to society. He calls for a 'soft universalism' that will not impose rights on others but will share the experience of freedom and help the victims of violations. Although a state of unlimited democracy threatens rights, the excess of rights can limit resources indispensable for democracy. This book argues that, although rights are a prerequisite of freedom, they should be balanced with other values that are indispensable for social harmony and personal happiness.

Author Biography

Wiktor Osiatyski is a professor at the Central European University, where he teaches at the CEU Legal Program in Budapest. He is a former co-director of the Center for the Study of Constitutionalism in Eastern Europe at the Chicago Law School and an advisor to a number of constitutional committees of Poland's parliament. The author of more than twenty books, Osiatyski is a member of the board of the Open Society Institute Budapest and of the board of the OSI Justice Initiative as well as of a Human Rights and Governance Grant Program at the OSI. In 2007, he cofounded the Women's Party in Poland.

Table of Contents

1. A short history of human rights; 2. Rights and democracy; 3. Rights and needs; 4. Rights and cultures; 5. Human rights and other values.

Review

'… provide[s] an interesting contribution to one of the major debates occurring in human rights scholarship at the present time. This is the changing role of history in human rights scholarship.' Cambridge Law Journal

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This book argues that human rights should be balanced with other values that are indispensable for social harmony and personal happiness.

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"Wiktor Osiatynski has devoted over four decades to promoting human rights in every part of the the world, while thinking deeply in print and otherwise, about the scope and limits of these efforts. This book, the product of those decades, combines profound practical wisdom with wide-ranging scholarship and intellectual rigor. His sensitivity to values and needs other than human rights will not make everyone happy, but for anyone who wants to advance these rights in a very complicated world, this book is required reading." --Herman Schwartz, Professor of Law, The American University Washington College of Law; Author of The Struggle For Constitutional Justice in Post-Communist Europe (Chicago 2001)

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This book argues that human rights should be balanced with other values that are indispensable for social harmony and personal happiness.

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Human Rights and their Limits deals with social, political, cultural, and ethical issues related to human rights. In this book, Osiatyoski argues that, although rights are a prerequisite of freedom, they should be balanced with other values that are indispensable for social harmony and personal happiness.

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Human Rights and their Limits deals with social, political, cultural, and ethical issues related to human rights. In this book, Osiatyoski argues that, although rights are a prerequisite of freedom, they should be balanced with other values that are indispensable for social harmony and personal happiness.

Details ISBN0521110270 Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 2009 ISBN-10 0521110270 ISBN-13 9780521110273 Format Hardcover Imprint Cambridge University Press Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Short Title HUMAN RIGHTS & THEIR LIMITS Language English Media Book Publication Date 2009-09-21 Pages 262 DEWEY 341.48 UK Release Date 2009-09-21 AU Release Date 2009-09-21 NZ Release Date 2009-09-21 Author Wiktor Osiatyski Alternative 9780511808333 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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