Section outline

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  • Syllabus

      • Human rights as an idea
      • Human rights in the antiquity
      • Human rights in the Bible
      • History of the theory of Human rights
      • Several justifications for Human rights
      • Some recent cases in human rights problematics
      • Teaching human rights – support from the EU – basic materials for teaching human rights issues in schools

  • Terms for online meetings via MS Teams

  • Bibliography and sources to the course

    • Basic

      • ARENDT, Hannah. The Human Condition. 7. Impr. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971.

      Recommended

      • ARENDT, Hannah. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984.
      • ARENDT, Hannah. The origins of totalitarianism. First Meridian printing. Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1958. Meridian books.
      • BELL, Daniel a Jean-Marc COICAUD. Ethics in action: the ethical challenges of international human rights nongovernmental organizations. New York: United Nations University, 2007, xiv. ISBN 9780521684491.
      • BORRADORI, Giovanna, HABERMAS, Jürgen, DERRIDA, Jacques. Philosophy in a time of terror: dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. ISBN 0-226-06666-5.
      • BUBER, Martin. A believing humanism: gleanings. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969. Credo perspectives.
      • BUBER, Martin. On intersubjectivity and cultural creativity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1992]. The Heritage of Sociology. ISBN 0-226-07807-8.
      • BUCHANAN, Allen E. The heart of human rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, x, 320. ISBN 9780199325382.
      • CAREY, Sabine C, Mark GIBNEY a Steven C POE. The politics of human rights: the quest for dignity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, ix, 241 s. ISBN 9780521614054.
      • DAVIS Arthur (editor). Collected works of George Grant. University of Toronto Press, (2000).
      • DERRIDA, Jacques. Ethics, institutions, and the right to philosophy [online]. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002, ©2002. Culture and Politics Series [cit. 2020-05-27]. ISBN 978-0-7425-7886-9. Available at: http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/natl-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1343747.
      • DERRIDA, Jacques. For Strasbourg: conversations of friendship and philosophy [online]. First edition. New York, New York: Fordham University Press, 2014 [cit. 2022-08-27]. Available at: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/natl/Doc?id=10896861.
      • DERRIDA, Jacques. Islam and the West: a conversation with Jacques Derrida [online]. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, ©2008 [cit. 2022-05-27]. Available at: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/natl/Doc?id=10288709.
      • DERRIDA, Jacques. The politics of friendship. London: Verso, 2005. Radical thinkers; 5. ISBN 1-84467-054-6.
      • DERSHOWITZ, Alan M. Rights from wrongs: a secular theory of the origins of rights. New York: Basic Books, 2004, ix. ISBN 0465017134.
      • DÜVEL, Marcus. The Cambridge handbook of human dignity: interdisciplinary perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014, xxii. ISBN 9780521195782.
      • EDELSTEIN, Ludwig. The Hippocratic oath: text, translation and interpretation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1943, vii, 64 s.
      • FINNIS, John. Human rigts and common Good. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, 429 s. ISBN 9780199580071.
      • GENUIS, Q. I. T. (2016). Dignity reevaluated: A theological examination of human dignity and the role of the Church in bioethics and end-of-life care. The Linacre Quarterly, 83(1), 6–14. http://doi.org/10.1179/2050854915Y.0000000010
      • GLENDON, Mary Ann. A world made new: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2002, xxi, 333. ISBN 0375760466.
      • GRANT, George. Philosophy in the Mass Age. CBC, 1959.
      • GRANT, George. Technology and Justice. Anansi, (1986).
      • HATAB, Lawrence J. Ethics and finitude: Heideggerian contributions to moral philosophy. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, c2000. ISBN 0847696839.
      • HAVEL, Václav, DOBROVSKÝ, Luboš, ed. NATO, Europe, and the security of democracy: selected speeches, articles, and interviews 1990-2002. 1st ed. Pardubice: Theo, 2002. ISBN 80-238-9539-7.
      • HAVEL, Václav, VLADISLAV, Jan, ed. Living in Truth: 22 essays published on the occasion of the award of the Erasmus Prize to Václav Havel. Repr. London: Faber and Faber, 1990. ISBN 0-571-14440-3.
      • HAVEL, Václav, WILSON, Paul R., ed. Open letters: selected writings, 1965-1990. 1st Vintage Books ed. New York: Random House, 1992, ©1991. ISBN 0-679-73811-8.
      • HAVEL, Václav. Politics and conscience. Stockholm: Charta 77 Foundation, 1986. Voices from Czechoslovakia, 2. ISBN 91-970777-2-0.
      • HAVEL, Václav. The art of the impossible: politics as morality in practice: speeches and writings, 1990-1996. 1st Fromm paperback ed. New York: Fromm, 1998. ISBN 0-88064-195-9.
      • HAVEL, Václav. The power of the powerless: citizens against the state in central-eastern Europe [online]. London, [England]: Routledge, 2015, ©1985 [cit. 2020-05-27]. ISBN 978-1-315-48736-6. Available at: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/natl-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4692143.
      • HAYDEN, Joshua M. (2024). Leadership and the ethics of hope: Václav Havel and the Charter 77 human rights movement in Czechoslovakia. Leadership, 20(5), 314-333. https://doi.org/10.1177/17427150241256160
      • HOLLENBACH, David. The global face of public faith: politics, human rights, and Christian ethics. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2003, xvii, 290 s. ISBN 0878401393.
      • IFE, Jim. Human rights and social work: towards rights-based practice. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, x, 258 s. ISBN 9780521719629.
      • IGNATIEFF, Michael a Amy GUTMANN. Human rights as politics and idolatry. Princeton: Princeton University Press, c2001, xxviii, 187 s. ISBN 0691114749.
      • LAGON, Mark P a Anthony Clark AREND. Human dignity and the future of global institutions. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, ©2014, xv, 366. ISBN 9781626161207.
      • LAUX, Bernhard. Heiligkeit und Menschenwürde: Hans Joas' neue Genealogie der Menschenrechte im theologischen Gespräch. Freiburg: Herder, c2013, 224 s. ISBN 9783451341489.
      • LEVINAS, Emmanuel, ROBBINS, Jill, ed. Is it righteous to be?: interviews with Emmanuel Lévinas. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001. Meridian. ISBN 0-8047-4309-6.
      • LEVINAS, Emmanuel. Collected Philosophical Papers, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Duquesne University Press, 1998.
      • LEVINAS, Emmanuel. Entre nous: thinking-of-the-other. London: Continuum, 2006. Continuum impacts. ISBN 0-8264-9079-4.
      • LEVINAS, Emmanuel. Outside the subject. London: Continuum, 2008. Continuum impacts. ISBN 978-0-8264-3353-4.
      • LEVINAS, Emmanuel. Unforeseen history. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, ©2004. ISBN 0-252-02883-X.
      • MACINTYRE, A. Whose Justice? Which Rationality? Notre Dame, 1984.
      • MAPP, Susan C. Human rights and social justice in a global perspective: an introduction to international social work. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, viii. ISBN 9780195313451.
      • MARCEL, Gabriel. A path to peace: fresh hope for the world dramatic explorations [online]. Milwaukee, Wis.: Marquette University Press, ©2007. Marquette studies in philosophy; no. 54 [cit. 2022-05-27]. Available at: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/natl/Doc?id=10223848.
      • MARCEL, Gabriel. Gabriel Marcel's perspectives on the broken world: the broken world, a four-act play: followed by concrete approaches to investigating the ontological mystery [online]. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, ©1998. Marquette studies in philosophy; no. 18 [cit. 2022-05-27]. Available at: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/natl/Doc?id=2001869.
      • MARITAIN, Jacques. Man And The State, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.
      • MARSHALL, Christopher D. Crowned with glory: human rights in the biblical tradition. Auckland, N.Z.: Lime Grove House, c2001, 160 p. Studies in peace and scripture, v. 6. ISBN 19-310-3804-X.
      • MILNE, A. Freedom and rights. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1968.
      • MOYN, Samuel. The last utopia: human rights in history. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010. ISBN 9780674048720.
      • OSIATYŃSKI, Wiktor. Human rights and their limits. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, xx, 241 s. ISBN 9780521110273.
      • PALOUŠ, Martin, ed. The Solidarity Of The Shaken: A Debate On Jan Patočka's Philosophical Legacy In Today's World, Prague: Václav Havel Library, 2016.
      • PERRY, Michael J. Toward a theory of human rights: religion, law, courts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, [2010?], xiii, 253. ISBN 9780521684224.
      • REGAN, Ethna. Theology and the Boundary Discourse of Human Rights. Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-158-9016-583.
      • REGAN, Ethna. Theology and the boundary discourse of human rights. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2010, xii, 243 p. ISBN 9781589016422.
      • RICŒUR, Paul. The just. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. ISBN 0-226-71340-7.
      • ROMMEN, Heinrich A. The natural law: a study in legal and social history and philosophy. Transl. by Thomas R Hanley. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1998, xxxviii, 278 s. ISBN 0865971609.
      • SVOBODOVÁ, Zuzana. (2018). Natural Law and Integral Humanism by J. Maritain: Teaching Challenges. Caritas et veritas, 8(2), 21-30. https://doi: 10.32725/cetv.2018.033.
      • VOEGELIN, Eric. History of political ideas: new order & last orientation [online]. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999. The collected works of Eric Voegelin; v. 25, 7 [cit. 2022-05-27]. Available at: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/natl/Doc?id=10001743.
      • VOEGELIN, Eric. The authoritarian state: an essay on the problem of the Austrian State [online]. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, ©1999. The collected works of Eric Voegelin; v. 4 [cit. 2022-05-27]. Available at: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/natl/Doc?id=10001723.
      • VOEGELIN, Eric. The collected works of Eric Voegelin [online]. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, ©1989-<c2001 > [cit. 2022-05-27]. Available at: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/natl/Doc?id=10001739.
      • VOEGELIN, Eric. The drama of humanity and other miscellaneous papers, 1939-1985 [online]. Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, ©2004. The collected works of Eric Voegelin; v. 33 [cit. 2022-05-27]. Available at: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/natl/Doc?id=10085570.
      • WEIL, Simone. Late philosophical writings [online]. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, [2015], ©2015 [cit. 2022-05-27]. ISBN 978-0-268-15851-4. Available at: http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/natl-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4454324.
      • WEIL, Simone. Oppression and liberty. 1st pub. in Routledge classics. London: Routledge, 2001. Routledge classics. ISBN 0-415-25407-8.
      • WEIL, Simone. The need for roots: prelude to a declaration of duties towards mankind. 1st pub. in Routledge classics. London: Routledge, 2002. ISBN 0-415-27102-9.
      • WELLMANN, Carl. Rights and duties [online]. [cit. 2021-08-19].
      • WELZEL, Christian. Freedom rising: human empowerment and the quest for emancipation. New York: Cambridge university press, 2013, xxix. ISBN 978-110-7664-838.
      • WITTE, John a Frank S ALEXANDER. Christianity and human rights: an introduction. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010, xii, 390 p. ISBN 05-211-4374-8.
      • WRONKA, Joseph. Human rights and social justice: social action and service for the helping and health professions. Los Angeles: SAGE, c2008, xv. ISBN 9781412938723.

  • Introduction. Human rights as an idea

  • Human rights in the antiquity and in the Bible

  • History of the theory of Human rights

  • Several justifications for Human rights

  • Some recent cases in human rights problematics

  • Teaching human rights – support from the EU – basic materials for teaching human rights issues in schools

  • Exam