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Indlæser... Self-evident Truths?: Human Rights and the Enlightenment (Oxford Amnesty Lectures, 2010) (original 2012; udgave 2012)af Kate E. Tunstall
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The keywords of the Enlightenment-freedom, tolerance, rights, equality-are today heard everywhere, and they are used to endorse a wide range of positions, some of which are in perfect contradiction. While Orwell's 1984 claims that there is one phrase in the English language that resists translation into Newspeak , namely the opening lines of that key Enlightenment text, the Declaration of Independence: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal...', we also find the Wall Street Journal saying of the Iraq War that the US was 'fighting for the very notion of the Enl No library descriptions found. |
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