The Idea of Human Rights: Four Inquiries by Michael J. Perry
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- The Idea of Human Rights: Four Inquiries
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- 9780195116366
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- 9780195116366
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Type
- Textbook
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- Hardcover
- Subject Area
- International Law, Civil Service, Political Science
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- English
- Publication Name
- The Idea of Human Rights: Four Inquiries
- Item Height
- 240mm
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- Oxford University Press
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- 159mm
- Item Weight
- 429g
- Number of Pages
- 170 Pages
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Inspired by a 1988 trip to El Salvador, Michael J. Perry's new book is a personal and scholarly exploration of the idea of human rights. Perry is one of our nation's leading authorities on the relation of morality, including religious morality, to politics and law. He seeks, in this book, to disentangle the complex idea of human rights by way of four probing and interrelated essays. * The initial essay, which is animated by Perry's skepticism about the capacity of any secular morality to offer a coherent account of the idea of human rights, suggests that the first part of the idea of human rights--the premise that every human being is sacred or inviolable --is inescapably religious. * Responding to recent criticism of rights talk , Perry explicates, in his second essay, the meaning and value of talk about human rights. * In his third essay, Perry asks a fundamental question about human rights: Are they universal? In addressing this question, he disaggregates and criticizes several different varieties of moral relativism and then considers the implications of these different relativist positions for claims about human rights. * Perry turns to another fundamental question about human rights in his final essay: Are they absolute? He concludes that even if no human rights, understood as moral rights, are absolute or unconditional, some human rights, understood as international legal rights, are--and indeed, should be--absolute. In the introduction, Perry writes: Of all the influential--indeed, formative--moral ideas to take center stage in the twentieth century, like democracy and socialism, the idea of human rights (which, again, in one form or another, is an old idea) is, for many, the most difficult. It is the most difficult in the sense that it is, for many, the hardest of the great moral ideas to integrate, the hardest to square, with the reigning intellectual assumptions of the age, especially what Bernard Williams has called 'Nietzsche's thought': 'There is not only no God, but no metaphysical order of any kind....' For those who accept 'Nietzsche's thought', can the idea of human rights possibly be more than a kind of aesthetic preference? In a culture in which it was widely believed that there is no God or metaphysical order of any kind, on what basis, if any, could the idea of human rights long survive? The Idea of Human Rights: Four Inquiries will appeal to students of many disciplines, including (but not limited to) law, philosophy, religion, and politics.
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Oxford University Press
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9780195116366
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International Law, Civil Service, Political Science
Publication Name
The Idea of Human Rights: Four Inquiries
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
170 Pages
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240mm
Item Width
159mm
Item Weight
429g
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United States
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