Ari Kohen

In Defense of Human Rights

A Non-Religious Grounding in a Pluralistic World

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 162mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9780415420150
• ISBN-10: 0415420156
• Artikelnr.: 22510430

Autorenporträt

Ari Kohen has been Assistant Professor of Justice Studies and Political Science at James Madison University, USA; from August 2007, he will be Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Prologue: Starvin' for Justice 2. Introduction: The First Day of Class
3. Michael Perry and the Religious Cosmology: Foundations and Critiques of
Human Rights 4. The Possibility of Non-religious Human Rights: Alan Gewirth
and the Principle of Generic Consistency 5. The Problem of Secular
Sacredness: Ronald Dworkin, Michael Perry, and Human Rights Foundationalism
6. Human Dignity Without Teleology: Human Rights and Evolutionary Biology
7. Does Might Make Human Rights?: Sympathy, Solidarity, and Subjectivity in
Richard Rorty's Final Vocabulary 8. Rights and Wrongs Without God: A
Non-religious Grounding for Human Rights in a Pluralistic World 9.
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