Human Rights and Human Dignity
An Analytic Critique of Non-Western Conceptions of Human Rights
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3345386 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jack Donnelly (0000-0001-6260-9514, College of the Holy Cross, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 303-316 |
| Publication date | 1982-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1961111 |
| OpenAlex | W4238493992 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 70 |
| References cited | 15 |
It is regularly argued that human rights are not a Western discovery and that non-Western societies have long emphasized the protection of human rights. Such claims, however, are based on a confusion of human rights and human dignity. A concern for human dignity is central to non-Western cultural traditions, whereas human rights, in the sense in which Westerners understand that term-namely, rights (entitlements) held simply by virtue of being a human being-are quite foreign to, for example, Islamic, African, Chinese, and Indian approaches to human dignity. Human rights are but one way that has been devised to realize and to protect human dignity. Although the idea of human rights was first articulated in the West in modern times, it would appear to be an approach particularly suited to contemporary social, political, and economic conditions, and thus of widespread contemporary relevance both in the West and the Third World
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| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 2023 (40) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 66 |