Title: UN Human Rights Ethics
Subtitle: Against Dissensus in Elementary Ethics
Subject Classification:  Human Rights, Philosophy, Morals  
BIC Classification: HP, HPQ, JPVH
BISAC Classification: PHI005000, PHI019000, POL035010
Binding: Hardback, eBook
Publication date: 02 Dec 2025
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-83711-553-2
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-83711-554-9

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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.

Biography

Author(s):  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.

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