From: "Joseph M. O'Neal" Subject: course materials To: revs@csf.colorado.edu Date: Thu, 26 Oct 95 10:21:54 CDT Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85.2.1] I taught a course for the first time this semester called "Human Rights and Social Justice." The course is on-line, combining posts to a Usenet group and more secure communications through e-mail. The course has worked well, but several students found the section of readings on foundations and bases for the derivation of human rights very difficult. Most of the material I assign in this section comes from articles by philosophy professors published in _Human Rights Quarterly_. Can anyone recommend a book of readings on the subject of philosophical foundations for human rights? I consider this section vitally important, since the entire course feeds off the tension between the universality of human rights and the great difficulty (if not impossibility) of finding foundations for human rights that are not ethnocentric and not based on Western hegemony. I would appreciate any suggestions for readings in this area. Thanks in advance. -- Joseph M. O'Neal 512-448-8745 St. Edward's University FAX: 512-448-8767 Austin, TX 78704 josephon@admin.stedwards.edu ****************************************************************************** "We are the unwilling, led by the unqualified, doing the unnecessary for the ungrateful." graffito, American air base, Vietnam, 1970. ******************************************************************************