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What Are Human Rights? Four Schools of Thought

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Dembour, Marie-Bénédicte·2010·Human Rights Quarterly
DOI 10.1353/hrq.0.0130
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A close reading of academic literature reveals that we do not all conceive of human rights in the same way. This contribution proposes that "natural scholars" conceive of human rights as given ; "deliberative scholars" as agreed upon ; "protest scholars" as fought for ; and "discourse scholars" as talked about . The position of each of these four schools on the foundation, universality, possible realization, and legal embodiment of human rights is reviewed, as well as is the schools' faith, or lack thereof, in human rights. Quotations from academic texts illustrate how the four school model cuts across the academic disciplines with examples drawn from philosophy, politics, law, and anthropology.

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Authors
Dembour, M.-B.
Corresponding author
Dembour, Marie-Bénédicte
ORCID
Dembour, Marie-Bénédicte
Venue
Human Rights Quarterly
Publisher
Project MUSE
Published
2010-02
Volume
32
Issue
1
Pages
1-20
ISSN
  • 0275-0392 (ISSN-L)
  • 1085-794X
DOI
10.1353/hrq.0.0130
OpenAlex
W1964201209
Semantic Scholar
364e165e505d49723088f8c08d21dce6b224bc93
Cited by
311
References
1
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FWCI
151.19
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
Locations
  • Human Rights Quarterly (publishedVersion)
  • Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
  • Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) (submittedVersion)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • University of Brighton Repository (University of Brighton) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Law › Legal Rights and Human Rights
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Political Philosophy and Ethics
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › International Law and Human Rights
Keywords
human rights, natural rights, deliberative democracy, protest movements, discourse, universality of human rights, foundations of human rights

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