By Joseph Runzo, Nancy M. Martin
ISBN-10: 1851683097
ISBN-13: 9781851683093
This ebook outlines techniques to human rights and responsibilites in the varied international religions.
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3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. Thomas Jefferson, 1776, quoted in Geoffrey Robertson, Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice (New York: Penguin Books, 2000), p. 6. Alexander Hamilton 1787, quoted in Robertson, Crimes Against Humanity, p. 8. For a comparison, more recent and fuller articulations of rights can be found in the Indian and South African constitutions. Jeremy Bentham, Supply without Burthen or Escheat Vice Taxation 1794, Object V. Robertson, Crimes Against Humanity, p.
And, as is so often the case, when religious exclusivism is conjoined with the political power of the state, the result is religious egoism – the idea that what is right for a particular religious community in a society is right for all members of society. Global justice requires that humans be freed from the tyranny of religious egoism as much as from the tyranny of non-religious forms of ideological exclusivism. Of the alternative ways to respond religiously to the conflicting truth claims of the world religions, religious exclusivism, especially in the form of religious egoism, would be actively opposed to attempts to achieve a concurrence among diverse religious and non-religious ethics.
Declaration ultimately lacks the potential moral authority and adjudicatory power of a document like the proposed Declaration on Human Rights (and, I would add, Responsibilities) by the World’s Religions. ”32 The secular protection of pluralism against, among other dangers, religious egoism, is crucial to a just society, and so the secular must not be subservient or held captive to religious theory. But what is needed is the construction of a social ethic which takes account of both the secular and the religious.
Human Rights and Responsibilities in World Religions (Library of Global Ethics & Religion) by Joseph Runzo, Nancy M. Martin
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