Michael Perry, Peter Singer, and Quasimodo: Persons with Disabilities and the Nature of Rights
Michael Perry's The Idea of Human Rights raises important and difficult issues. One such issue, reformulated, is whether the latter half of the twentieth century has witnessed both the rise of human rights language in international law, and the erosion, if not the collapse, in the intellectual...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1999
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Journal of law and religion
Year: 1999, Volume: 14, Issue: 1, Pages: 113-159 |
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| Summary: | Michael Perry's The Idea of Human Rights raises important and difficult issues. One such issue, reformulated, is whether the latter half of the twentieth century has witnessed both the rise of human rights language in international law, and the erosion, if not the collapse, in the intellectual sphere of the theoretical underpinnings of human rights as traditionally understood. This is part of a broader tension, in which the advance of broadly liberal values has coexisted with increasing skepticism about the objectivity of ethics, freedom of the will and genuine moral responsibility, meaningfulness in a natural order, and the irreducibility of mind. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-3088 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of law and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1051781 |