How (not What) Shall We Think about Human Rights and Religious Arguments? Public Reasoning and Beyond
This paper addresses the question of how (not what) we should think about human rights and religious arguments. Thinking about this relationship is today particularly important, because conflicts over human rights in practice often turn around their theoretical problems. Should religious arguments b...
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Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra
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| description | This paper addresses the question of how (not what) we should think about human rights and religious arguments. Thinking about this relationship is today particularly important, because conflicts over human rights in practice often turn around their theoretical problems. Should religious arguments be used to justify human rights? Or do we want human rights to be free from any partisan endorsement so as to avoid divisive interpretations of universal principles? Underlying these hard questions is the issue of justification in view of a plurality of cultural and religious traditions around the globe. If human rights can be transformed so as to defy the charge of Euro-centrism (of being parochially rooted in only one cultural and religious tradition), they need to creatively draw on, not pit themselves against, this plurality. This paper suggests a framework for such a positive and inclusive engagement with various cultures and religions that goes beyond the mainstream liberal model of “public reason”. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-0694c3333b0444aaa5d2a4bfef60d2a22025-08-20T02:21:53ZengCentro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbrae-cadernos ces1647-07372010-09-01910.4000/eces.553How (not What) Shall We Think about Human Rights and Religious Arguments? Public Reasoning and BeyondMathias ThalerThis paper addresses the question of how (not what) we should think about human rights and religious arguments. Thinking about this relationship is today particularly important, because conflicts over human rights in practice often turn around their theoretical problems. Should religious arguments be used to justify human rights? Or do we want human rights to be free from any partisan endorsement so as to avoid divisive interpretations of universal principles? Underlying these hard questions is the issue of justification in view of a plurality of cultural and religious traditions around the globe. If human rights can be transformed so as to defy the charge of Euro-centrism (of being parochially rooted in only one cultural and religious tradition), they need to creatively draw on, not pit themselves against, this plurality. This paper suggests a framework for such a positive and inclusive engagement with various cultures and religions that goes beyond the mainstream liberal model of “public reason”.https://journals.openedition.org/eces/553human rightsjustificationmodus vivendipluralismpublic reasonsecularism |
| spellingShingle | Mathias Thaler How (not What) Shall We Think about Human Rights and Religious Arguments? Public Reasoning and Beyond e-cadernos ces human rights justification modus vivendi pluralism public reason secularism |
| title | How (not What) Shall We Think about Human Rights and Religious Arguments? Public Reasoning and Beyond |
| title_full | How (not What) Shall We Think about Human Rights and Religious Arguments? Public Reasoning and Beyond |
| title_fullStr | How (not What) Shall We Think about Human Rights and Religious Arguments? Public Reasoning and Beyond |
| title_full_unstemmed | How (not What) Shall We Think about Human Rights and Religious Arguments? Public Reasoning and Beyond |
| title_short | How (not What) Shall We Think about Human Rights and Religious Arguments? Public Reasoning and Beyond |
| title_sort | how not what shall we think about human rights and religious arguments public reasoning and beyond |
| topic | human rights justification modus vivendi pluralism public reason secularism |
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