Duties, rights and afro-communitarian societies

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dc.contributor.authorNyirenda, Nitumbiko
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-21T07:34:06Z
dc.date.available2019-11-21T07:34:06Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionA Research Report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, Philosophy, Johannesburg 2019en_ZA
dc.description.abstractHuman rights are at the center of most world societies today. The traditional assumption has been that they are necessary and universal. However, in light of their universality, there are variations with regard to a conception of human rights that each society has. That is, even if most societies acknowledge existence of human rights, how each society thinks about human rights, in terms of justification and application for example, may be different. In this paper, while presenting various African conceptions of human rights, I argue for a conception of human rights from the stand point of duties. I argue that human rights in Afro-communitarian societies are implicit within the language of duty. To understand the implicit nature of rights, I argue for rights as needs. I take human rights (as needs), to be the basic conditions for living a decent life in a society.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianXL2019en_ZA
dc.format.extentOnline resource (iii, 103 leaves)
dc.identifier.citationNyirenda, Vitumbiko. (2019). Duties, Human Rights and Afro-Communitarian Socities. University of the Witwatersrand, https://hdl.handle.net/10539/28514
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/28514
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshCitizenship-South Africa
dc.subject.lcshHuman rights
dc.titleDuties, rights and afro-communitarian societiesen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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