Download or read book Truth, Politics, and Universal Human Rights written by J. Madigan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-07-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses the concept of universal human rights to explore the relationship between the individual, society, and truth. To answer the question of how we say something universally true about human beings while lacking the philosophical means to do so, the author explores the changing relationship between truth and politics from Plato to Locke.