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LE T TERS T O TH E C ONTR ARY Stanford Studies in Human Rights L E T T E R S T O T H E C O N T R A R Y A Curated History of the UNESCO Human Rights Survey Edited and Introduced by Mark Goodale Stanford University Press • Stanford, California Stanford University Press Stanford, California ©2018 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Goodale, Mark, editor. Title: Letters to the contrary : a curated history of the UNESCO human rights survey / edited and introduced by Mark Goodale. Description: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018. | Series: Stanford studies in human rights | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017040633 (print) | LCCN 2017041867 (ebook) | ISBN 9781503605350 (e-book) | ISBN 9780804799003 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781503605343 (pbk. : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Human rights—History—Sources. | United Nations. General Assembly. Universal Declaration of Human Rights—History—Sources. | Unesco—History—Sources. Classification: LCC K3240 (ebook) | LCC K3240 .L477 2018 (print) | DDC 341.4/8—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017040633 Cover design and photo: George Kirkpatrick Text design: Bruce Lundquist Typeset at Stanford University Press in 11/15 Adobe Garamond What song then should [we] teach the youth of the world to sing? It must be a song that looks war in the face and yet continues to sing of better things. The heart must be strong enough to conquer hate, and the mind clear enough to see the Question from the point of view of the whole world. It will be the hardest song to learn that the race has ever been called upon to sing. Ernest Henry Burgmann, aka the “Red Bishop” (1947) This page intentionally left blank Contents Foreword xiii Samuel Moyn A Technical Note on the Text xvii PART I: READING HUMAN RIGHTS HISTOR Y WITH A PERIOD EYE Introduction 3 History: UNESCO in the Paradigmatic Transition 13 Interpretations: From a “Hollow Sham” to a “Plurality of Cultural Values” 33 PART II: KEY DOCUMENTS Memorandum and Questionnaire Circulated by UNESCO on the Theoretical Bases of the Rights of Man 47 The Grounds of an International Declaration of Human Rights 54 Foreword and Introduction to Human Rights, Comments and Interpretations, UNESCO 1949 66 Foreword 66 Jacques Havet Introduction 67 Jacques Maritain PART III: THE UNESCO HUMAN RIGHTS SUR VEY: RESPONSES, REFUSALS, CORRESPONDENCE LIBERALISM FROM THE ASHES 77 A Fragment of Thoughts Concerning the Nature and the Fulfilment of Human Rights 77 Arnold J. Lien The Philosophic Bases and Material Circumstances of the Rights of Man 82 Richard P. McKeon viii Contents Relationship Between Different Categories of Human Rights 91 Quincy Wright On the Draft Convention and “Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man” 97 Levi Carneiro Comments on the Basic Human Rights 101 Arthur H. Compton A World Bill of Rights 103 Charles E. Merriam Memorandum on the Rights of Man for the Commission on Human Rights of the United Nations 107 Lewis Mumford BEYOND EGOTISTIC MAN: COMMUNIST, SOCIALIST, AND SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGES 109 The Rights of Man 109 E. H. Carr On Human Rights 112 John Lewis Towards a Universal Declaration of Human Rights 126 Harold J. Laski The Rights of Man in Liberalism, Socialism and Communism 138 Serge I. Hessen Comparison of Soviet and Western Democratic Principles, with Special Reference to Human Rights 158 John Somerville The Conception of the Rights of Man in the U.S.S.R. Based on Official Documents 161 Boris Tchechko Human Rights in the World Today 166 Luc Somerhausen Declaration on the Rights of Man 168 Hyman Levy Contents ix Untitled 170 Ture Nerman Contribution to Discussion on Declaration of Human Rights 171 R. Palme Dutt Economic and Social Rights of Man 176 Maurice Dobb RIGHTS IN A SACRED UNIVERSE 178 Philosophical Examination of Human Rights 178 Jacques Maritain Some Reflections on the Rights of Man 183 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Grammatical Analysis of the Rights of Man 185 Marcel de Corte Some Fundamental Ideas for the United Nations’ Declaration of the Rights of Man 188 Pedro Troncoso Sánchez THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN DUTIES 191 A Letter Addressed to the Director-General of UNESCO 191 Mahatma Gandhi Human Rights in the Chinese Tradition 192 Chung-Shu Lo Reflections on Human Rights 196 Kurt Riezler Reply to the Questionnaire on the Rights of Man 197 Inocenc Arnošt Bláha Memorandum on the Rights of Man 199 Hubert Frère Untitled 202 M. Nicolay
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