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In Defense of Human Rights: A Non-Religious Grounding in a Pluralistic World

In Defense of Human Rights: A Non-Religious Grounding in a Pluralistic World

Kohen, Ari

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0415420156
ISBN13: 9780415420150
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 22 2007
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.26
Language: English

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.

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