Taking Human Rights out of Human Rights  

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Tasioulas, John

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Ethics: An International Journal of Social Political and Legal Philosophy vol. 120 no. 4 (Jul. 2010), page 647-678.
Topik: Human Rights; Debasement; Natural Law; Consensus; Consolation

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James Griffin’s new book is perhaps the most significant philosophical meditation on human rights to emerge in the human rights-intoxicated era inaugurated by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. His starting-point is an unflattering, almost MacIntyrean, portrayal of the ‘debasement’ of contemporary human rights discourse, a consequence of the fact that the term ‘human rights’ has become ‘nearly criterionless’. Admittedly, the familiar characterization of such rights – rights that we have simply in virtue of being human – retains its currency. But we no longer accept the theological background that conferred some much-needed additional determinacyon this notion in scholastic conceptions of natural law, largely because of the successive waves of criticism launched on its metaphysical and epistemological underpinnings from the late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. And when the theological interpretation was abandoned, ‘nothing was put in its place. The term was left with so few criteria for determining when it is used correctly, and when incorrectly, that we often have only a tenuous, and sometimes plainly inadequate, grasp on what is at issue’. Whereas this was not such an acute practical problem for writers in the 17th and 18th Centuries, who could at least assume a broad consensus on examples of human rights, today we lack even this consolation.

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