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In Defense of Human Rights: A Non-Religious Grounding in a Pluralistic World
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In Defense of Human Rights: A Non-Religious Grounding in a Pluralistic World Hardcover - 2007

by Ari Kohen


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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.

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  • Title In Defense of Human Rights: A Non-Religious Grounding in a Pluralistic World
  • Author Ari Kohen
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date 2007-02-22
  • ISBN 9780415420150 / 0415420156
  • Weight 1.02 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.26 x 6.38 x 0.71 in (23.52 x 16.21 x 1.80 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Human rights, Human rights - Religious aspects
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006034969
  • Dewey Decimal Code 323.01

About the author

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.

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