商品簡介
Kao (ethics, Claremont School of Theology) surveys theoretical justifications for universal accounts of human rights, assessing the strengths and weaknesses of each and selecting from them in order to present her own version. She first examines "maximalist" claims that seek to embed human rights within religious commitments, discussing in particular the Organisation of the Islamic Conference's Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam (1990), the papal encyclical Pacem in terries (1963), and the Parliament of the World's Religions' Declaration toward a Global Ethic (1993). She then turns to discussion of "minimalist" approaches, including John Rawls's theory of "human rights proper," consensus-based approaches, and the universalistic capability approach that defends an objective account of the good while denying the metaphysical character of such an account. In the end, she settles on an account that includes caution over inflating the concept of human rights through overextension, a consensus-based defense of pragmatism and plural foundations for human rights, the capability approach's focus on the characteristically and essentially human, and the maximalist commitment to the real worth of human beings. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Grace Y. Kao is an associate professor of ethics at Claremont School of Theology and an associate professor of religion at Claremont Graduate University.