Two Notions of Humanity and the Judgment Argument for Human Rights  

Oleh:

Ferrara, Alessandro

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Political Theory vol. 31 no. 3 (Jun. 2003), page 392-420.
Topik: human rights; international justice; judgment; humanity; international relations
Fulltext: 392PT313.pdf (125.15KB)

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This essay is about the difficulties connected with grounding human rights philosophically in a multicultural context. These difficulties are argued to derive from the tension between our aspiration to universal validity and our shared belief in the constitutive role of life-forms, traditions, cultures, and vocabularies vis-à-vis our conceptions of justice. Rawls’s and Habermas’s approaches to the justification of human rights are then briefly reconstructed and assessed. A symmetrical distribution of strong and weak points is argued to obtain. In the light of this reconstruction, the author explores the potential of his judgment view of justice for providing a justification of the universality of human rights not vulnerable to the difficulties of the other examined approaches.

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