Legitimizing Human Rights: Secular and Religious Perspectives
Angus J. L. Menuge - Ashgate Publishing Company, 2013
When does the exercise of an interest
constitute a human right? The contributors to Menuge's edited collection offer a
range of secular and religious responses to this fundamental question of the
legitimacy of human rights claims. The first section evaluates the plausibility
of natural and transcendent foundations for human rights. A further section
explores the nature of religious freedom and the vexed question of its proper
limits as it arises in the US, European, and global contexts. The final section
explores the pragmatic justification of human rights: how do we motivate the
recognition and enforcement of human rights in the real world?This topical book
should be of interest to a range of academics from disciplines spanning law,
philosophy, religion and politics.
