Keywords
Social Justice, UN Declaration of Human Rights, Universal Moral Grammar
Abstract
In this article I connect the principles of the UN Declaration of Human Rights to the issue of global social justice, and ask the question: is there a genetically endowed Universal Moral Grammar common to all human beings comparable to the Universal Grammar for language acquisition demonstrated so convincingly by Noam Chomsky and others?
Recommended Citation
Walsh, Vincent.
2012.
"Universal Moral Grammar: An Ontological Grounding for Human Rights."
Societies Without Borders
7 (1):
74-99.
Available at:
https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/swb/vol7/iss1/4
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