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Universal Human Rights brings new clarity to the important and highly contested concept universal human rights. The Charter of the United Nations commits nearly all nations of the world to promote, to realize and take action to achieve human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, yet this formal consensus masks an underlying confusion about the philosophical basis and practical implications of rights in a world made up of radically different national communities. This collection of essays explores the foundations of universal human rights in four sections devoted to their nature, application, enforcement and limits, concluding that shared rights help to constitute a universal human community, which supports local customs and separate state sovereignty. Rights protect the benefits of cultural diversity, while recognizing the universal dignity that every human life deserves. The eleven contributors to this volume demonstrate from their very different perspectives how human rights can help to bring moral order to an otherwise divided world.

[Abstract] The purpose of this heuristic research study was to investigate and describe the question: What is the experience of opening to universal order? The experience was subjective in nature and included emotional, psychological, cognitive and spiritual levels. A literature review revealed no other empirical study done on this question. References used in this review covered a range of disciplines including psychology, eastern and western religions, philosophy and science. The conceptual framework and theoretical constructs of methods and procedures were provided by the heuristic research model. Data was provided by taped interviews of 8 adults and a self investigation. Three main categories were identified with 12 major themes. The three categories were the description of the experience of opening to universal order; body sensations and feelings associated to opening to universal order; and meaning of universal order for the experiencer. The first category, the description of the experience of opening to universal order had four themes: things as they should be, no control over situations; serendipitous and synchronistic events; and sense of connectedness. The second category, body sensations and feelings associated to opening to universal order has five themes: agitation; excitement, awe, peace, and loss of individuality. Lastly, the category the meaning of universal order for the experiencer had four themes: spirituality; everything happens for a reason; 1iving in the moment, and something larger than self. The findings of the study could be of value to the fields of psychology/psychotherapy, education, religion, and people in general.

The history of bourgeois modernity is a history of the Enemy. This book is a radical exploration of an Enemy that has recently emerged from within security documents released by the US security state: the Universal Adversary. The Universal Adversary is now central to emergency planning in general and, more specifically, to security preparations for future attacks. But an attack from who, or what? This book – the first to appear on the topic – shows how the concept of the Universal Adversary draws on several key figures in the history of ideas, said to pose a threat to state power and capital accumulation. Within the Universal Adversary there lies the problem not just of the ‘terrorist’ but, more generally, of the ‘subversive’, and what the emergency planning documents refer to as the ‘disgruntled worker’. This reference reveals the conjoined power of the contemporary mobilisation of security and the defence of capital. But it also reveals much more. Taking the figure of the disgruntled worker as its starting point, the book introduces some of this worker’s close cousins – figures often regarded not simply as a threat to security and capital but as nothing less than the Enemy of all Mankind: the Zombie, the Devil and the Pirate. In situating these figures of enmity within debates about security and capital, the book engages an extraordinary variety of issues that now comprise a contemporary politics of security. From crowd control to contagion, from the witch-hunt to the apocalypse, from pigs to intellectual property, this book provides a compelling analysis of the ways in which security and capital are organized against nothing less than the ‘Enemies of all Mankind’.

This work aims to reopen the fundamental question of being. It raises the question of being after the natural sciences and phenomenology have run their course and pursues it according to a method that is properly metaphysical as well as critical.