A Few Words of Gratitude
I am deeply grateful for this symposium on The Idea of Human Rights. I am especially grateful to Marie Failinger, co-editor of the Journal of Law and Religion, who conceived the symposium and then brought it to fruition.I am also greatly honored by this symposium. In particular, I am honored that th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1999
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Journal of law and religion
Year: 1999, Volume: 14, Issue: 1, Pages: 161-163 |
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| Summary: | I am deeply grateful for this symposium on The Idea of Human Rights. I am especially grateful to Marie Failinger, co-editor of the Journal of Law and Religion, who conceived the symposium and then brought it to fruition.I am also greatly honored by this symposium. In particular, I am honored that the contributors to the symposium are thinkers whose own work I esteem.I have learned from experience that my engagement with critical commentary on my work is much more likely to be genuinely productive on my part if I do not rush to respond. I am especially wary of rushing to respond at the present time, because for the past few years I have been in the grip of two sets of issues very different from those I addressed in The Idea of Human Rights. For now, suffice it to say the contributors to this symposium, each in her or his own way, have both broadened and deepened my understanding of the issues I addressed in The Idea of Human Rights. When I revisit those issues, as I expect to do in the next few years, I will turn to the important, difficult questions and arguments pressed by the symposiasts in the preceding essays. As Jean Bethke Elshtain, for one, has emphasized in her contribution, there is much more work to be done—important work. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-3088 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of law and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1051782 |