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Human Rights Ethics: A Rational Approach

Human Rights Ethics: A Rational Approach

Butler, Clark

Paperback

Series: Purdue Human Rights Studies

PhilosophyGeneral LawSocial Movements

Publisher Price: $39.95

ISBN10: 1557534802
ISBN13: 9781557534804
Publisher: Purdue Univ Pr
Published: Apr 30 2008
Pages: 308
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.13 Depth: 8.95
Language: English
Human Rights Ethics makes an important contribution to contemporary philosophical and political debates concerning the advancement of global justice and human rights. Butler's book also lays claim to a significant place in both normative ethics and human rights studies in as much as it seeks to vindicate a universalistic, rational approach to human rights ethics. Butler's innovative approach is not based on murky claims to natural rights that supposedly hold wherever human beings exist; nor does it succumb to the traditional problems of justification associated with utilitarianism, Kantianism, and other procedural approaches to human rights studies. Instead, Butler proposes a dialectical justification of human rights by indirect proof that claims not to be question begging. Very much in the spirit of Hegel and Habermas, Butler proposes to vindicate a totally rational account of human rights, but one that depends concretely and historically on a dialectically constructed right to freedom of thought in its universal modes.

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