The Challenge of Human Rights: Origin, Development and Significance

by Jack Mahoney

The Challenge of Human Rights traces the history of human rights theory from classical antiquity through the enlightenment to the modern human rights movement, and analyses the significance of human rights in today’s increasingly globalized world.
Argues that human rights logically culminate in an ethical cosmopolitanism to reflect the moral unity of the human race.

240 pages, Paperback

First published October 20, 2006

About the author

John Aloysius Mahoney was a Scottish Jesuit, moral theologian, and academic, specialising in applied ethics and business ethics.
Mahoney was principal of Heythrop College, London from 1976 to 1981, F. D. Maurice Professor of Moral and Social Theology at King's College, London from 1986 to 1993, and Dixons Professor of Business Ethics and Social Responsibility at the London Business School from 1993 to 1998. He was also Gresham Professor of Commerce between 1988 and 1993.

Reviews

[Fox · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very difficult book to get through. It is quite dense in material. Unfortunately, there really isn't a really good book on human rights just yet. It does cover a lot of vital aspects and has an in depth discussion about the language we use to discuss human rights - a vital concept itself.

Overall, the book is informative and thought-provoking. The only downside is that it's difficult to get through. Make is a slow read, or you won't absorb the concepts very well.