Human Rights and Modernity: The Truth of the Fiction of Individual Rights
Accepting MacIntyre's teleological argument that the notion of individual rights is an invention or fiction, the article argues, against MacIntyre, that such a fiction may be interpreted as a creative response to the social requirements of modernity. Such rights language discloses the essential...
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Wiley-Blackwell
1988
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Journal of religious ethics
Year: 1988, Volume: 16, Issue: 1, Pages: 160-189 |
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