In Defense of Human Rights: A Non-Religious Grounding in a Pluralistic World (Routledge Innovations in Political Theory) - Softcover

Kohen, Ari

Softcover

ISBN 10: 041547969X ISBN 13: 9780415479691

Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

This book establishes a defence of human rights that can be shared by both non-religious and religious people.

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Review:

'...a fine contribution to the growing literature on its chosen subject and must be regarded as essential reading for all engaged with these matters.'
David Lay Williams, University of Wisconsin, USA

 

 

Synopsis:

The argument that religion provides the only compelling foundation for human rights is both challenging and thought-provoking and answering it is of fundamental importance to the furthering of the human rights agenda. This book establishes an equally compelling non-religious foundation for the idea of human rights, engaging with the writings of many key thinkers in the field, including Michael J. Perry, Alan Gewirth, Ronald Dworkin and Richard Rorty.Ari Kohen draws on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a political consensus of overlapping ideas from cultures and communities around the world that establishes the dignity of humans and argues that this dignity gives rise to collective human rights. In constructing this consensus, we have succeeded in establishing a practical non-religious foundation upon which the idea of human rights can rest. "In Defense of Human Rights" will be of interest to students and scholars of political theory, philosophy, religious studies and human rights.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 041547969X
• ISBN 13: 9780415479691
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224