Habermas, Religion and Human Rights
Journal Title: The Journal of Human Rights - Year 2019, Vol 14, Issue 1
Abstract
In my paper, I take as a specific example of the relationship between religion and human rights in the work of Jürgen Habermas, asking if there is any possible relationship between religion and the foundations of human rights. I argue that if we mean by human rights what has been taken from Jürgen Habermas’s recent work, then there can be little or no relationship between religion and human rights. Either religion can contribute little or nothing to the discussion of rights in multicultural societies, or another formulation for the origin of human rights must be found.
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Kevin W. Gray
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