TY - JOUR ID - 58203 TI - The notion of the “Spirit of Brotherhood” in article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Conceptual challenges in liberal societies JO - Public Law Studies Quarterly JA - JPLSQ LA - en SN - 2423-8120 AU - Mousazadeh, Reza AD - Associate Professor, School of International Relations, Tehran, Iran Y1 - 2016 PY - 2016 VL - 46 IS - 2 SP - 393 EP - 416 KW - fraternity KW - Individualism KW - Liberalism KW - liberal society KW - spirit of brotherhood KW - Universal declaration of Human rights DO - 10.22059/jplsq.2016.58203 N2 - According to Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the notion of “Fraternity” is recognized as a human duty and as it stipulates: “All human beings … should act toward another in the spirit of brotherhood”. While The Declaration is partially influenced by religious terms such as “Fraternity”, most of its concepts are based on Western individualistic philosophy which suits the social and economic structure of liberal societies. This paper is an attempt to find whether the notion of Fraternity which requires “to be responsible toward others”, “sense of human unity”, “generosity” … could be applied in liberal societies and accepted as moral values. For this purpose, it studies the concept from three different perspectives: Philosophical, Ontological and Values of the liberal societies. UR - https://jplsq.ut.ac.ir/article_58203.html L1 - https://jplsq.ut.ac.ir/article_58203_bb4d40eeed3a4aba1eff1e9e2a68b0ae.pdf ER -