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Acknowledgments xi
Prologue: Starvin' for Justice 1
Introduction: the first day of class 6
Michael Perry and the religious cosmology: foundations and critiques of human rights 13
Human sacredness and human rights 14
The idea of a religious worldview 20
Nietzsche and the death of God 31
Conclusion 35
The possibility of non-religious human rights: Alan Gewirth and the Principle of Generic Consistency 38
Gewirth's case against previous theories 40
The Principle of Generic Consistency 44
A critique of Generic Consistency 51
Conclusion 61
The problem of secular sacredness: Ronald Dworkin, Michael Perry, and human rights foundationalism 64
Toward a secular conception of "sacred" 65
Michael Perry's objection 69
The etymology of rights 79
Human dignity without teleology: human rights and evolutionary biology 85
The evolution of human nature 88
Personal identity and the mind's "I" 92
Human animals and human persons 97
Dignity and "the boundaries of our existence" 105
Does might make human rights? Sympathy,solidarity, and subjectivity in Richard Rorty's final vocabulary 109
The trouble with irony 111
Self-creation and humiliation 117
Replacing "why" with "how" 122
Conclusion 126
Rights and wrongs without God: a non-religious grounding for human rights in a pluralistic world 129
Constructing the foundation: a reply to cultural relativism 134
Rights by committee and the idea of an overlapping consensus 141
Can consensus have justificatory force? 146
The limits of language 148
Notes 152
Bibliography 192
Index 199
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Nancy Smith
reviewed In Defense of Human Rights on May 25, 2016
In Defense of Human Rights
What a wonderful book! It was full of stories where the Oduns come from, and explains a lot about the mother of this world. Why she is so revered, and it explains a lot about challenges that her children face day to day. It was a wonderful book!
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