But to Do Right… Why the Language of ‘Rights’ Does Not Do Justice to Justice
The essay critically engages Woltertorff’s account of justice by challenging the political status of its archaeological defence of rights language, its prioritizing of ‘primary’ and therefore ‘procedural’ justice, its suggestion to think of rights as ‘social bonds’ and the validity of subjecting God...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2010
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Studies in Christian ethics
Year: 2010, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 138-146 |
| Further subjects: | B
Worth
B practice of justice B Duties B private language B Social bonds B political virtues B Procedural Justice |
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| Summary: | The essay critically engages Woltertorff’s account of justice by challenging the political status of its archaeological defence of rights language, its prioritizing of ‘primary’ and therefore ‘procedural’ justice, its suggestion to think of rights as ‘social bonds’ and the validity of subjecting God and world under one and the same concept of ‘worth’. |
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| ISSN: | 0953-9468 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studies in Christian ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0953946809359464 |