Un Human Rights Ethics
Against Dissensus in Elementary Ethics
Published on 15. November 2025
Book
Hardback
345 pages
978-1-83711-553-2 (ISBN)
Description
UN Human Rights Ethics is addressed to philosophers specializing in moral philosophy and to other faculty who teach elementary normative ethics.
The book derives an exposition of a normative ethical theory from the numbered articles of 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The author surveys a typical range of normative ethical theories, and argues against them all, with the exception of human rights ethics.
UN human rights ethics is a teleological ethics in which the final goal is the personality development of each human being beyond all human rights. Some evidence suggests the Universal Declaration was influence by the psychologist Abraham Maslow.
Human rights ethics was not developed by the UN against any other moral philosopher, but against the agreed epitome of evil in post-WWII years, in the person of Adolf Hitler.
UN Human Rights Ethics is a useful reference text for any elementary ethics course.
The book derives an exposition of a normative ethical theory from the numbered articles of 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The author surveys a typical range of normative ethical theories, and argues against them all, with the exception of human rights ethics.
UN human rights ethics is a teleological ethics in which the final goal is the personality development of each human being beyond all human rights. Some evidence suggests the Universal Declaration was influence by the psychologist Abraham Maslow.
Human rights ethics was not developed by the UN against any other moral philosopher, but against the agreed epitome of evil in post-WWII years, in the person of Adolf Hitler.
UN Human Rights Ethics is a useful reference text for any elementary ethics course.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bury St Edmunds
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 148 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-83711-553-2 (9781837115532)
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Dr Clark Butler is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University, Fort Wayne, USA. He served as Director of the Purdue University Human Rights Institute for ten years.