In Defense of Human Rights: A Non-Religious Grounding in a Pluralistic World

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Summary

This bookestablishes a defence of human rights that can be shared by bothnon-religious and religious people.

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Prologue: Starvin' for Justice
Introduction: The First Day of Class
Michael Perry and the Religious Cosmology: Foundations and Critiques of Human Rights
The Possibility of Non-Religious Human Rights: Alan Gewirth and the Principle of Generic Consistency
The Problem of Secular Sacredness: Ronald Dworkin, Michael Perry, and Human Rights Foundationalism
Human Dignity Without Teleology: Human Rights and Evolutionary Biology
Does Might Make Human Rights? Sympathy, Solidarity, and Subjectivity in Richard Rorty's Final Vocabulary
Rights and Wrongs Without God: A Non-Religious Grounding for Human Rights in a Pluralistic World
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