The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 50

The Great Books Foundation and the Foreign Policy Association (FPA) have published a special issue of the FPA's quarterly Headline Series that includes texts about the political history and impact of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The special issue of the Headline Series includes interpretive discussion questions from the Great Books Foundation to help readers explore the texts and contemporary issues raised by the UDHR, such as foreign relations, national sovereignty, and human rights in the United States and abroad.

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Table of Contents:

1. Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations
2. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
3. The Declaration of Independence
4. The Constitution of the United States: Preamble and Bill of Rights
5. Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
6. John Locke: "Of Civil Government"
7. Jeremy Netham: "Anarchical Fallacies"
8. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: "As to Humanness"
9. U.S.Office of War Information: "The Four Freedoms"
10. Hannah Arendt: "The Perplexities of the Rights of Man"
11. Catherine A. MacKinnon: "Crimes of War, Crimes of Peace"
12. Richard Rorty: "Human Rights, Rationality, & Sentimentality"