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    A Way Out of the Seventeenth-Century: Human Rights Beyond Modernities

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    Authors
    Baldissone, Riccardo
    Date
    2010
    Type
    Conference Paper
    
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    Baldissone, Riccardo. 2010. A Way Out of the Seventeenth-Century: Human Rights Beyond Modernities, in Lunn, J. and Houen, C. and Reid, A. and Baker, J. and Kerr, T. and Grellier, J. and Gerbaz, A. (ed), Creative Margins, Nov 12 2010, pp. 1-17. Perth, WA: Curtin University.
    Source Title
    Creative Margins
    Source Conference
    Creative Margins
    School
    Centre for Human Rights Education
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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17867
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    The ethnocentric legacy of human rights discourse is expressed in individualistic legal and moral approaches that inform most philosophical reflections on human rights. I will sketch a path towards a broader theoretical framework that can better sustain and articulate human rights claims of human dignity and well-being. For this purpose, I reconsider human rights discourse within the general modern context. In particular, I describe human rights entitlement as an instance of a fundamentalist modern approach that is constructed upon supposedly objective facts that assume the value-free order of nature. I underscore that acknowledging the performativity of science can assist to disentangle contemporary thought in general, and human rights discourse in particular, from modern fundamentalist assumptions. Finally, I suggest that we reconceptualise human rights as the result of negotiation processes, in which all humans are potential stakeholders.

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