Reflections on the ambiguous universality of human rights: Cyrus the Great's proclamation as a challenge to the Athenian democracy's perceived monopoly on human rights.

About 63 pages (19,019 words)

Denver Journal of International Law and Policy, December 22nd, 2007

By day I praised you and never knew it. By night I stayed with you and never knew it. I always thought that I was me--but no, I was you and never knew it. Rumi *

I. INTRODUCTION

[Europe] is ... the source--the unique source--[of the] ... ideas of individual liberty, political democracy, equality before the law, ... human rights, and cultural freedom.... These are European ideas, not Asian, nor African, nor Middle Eastern ideas, except by adoption. (1)

This assertion of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. illustrates the fact that, to date, in the Western legal, philosophical and political liter...

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