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LEGITIMIZING HUMAN RIGHTS

Menuge has brought together a first-rate, international set of contributors to advance our reflection on the foundation, nature, and importance of human rights. This book should be studied by all those interested in human rights and who take seriously the need to inquire into the basis and justification of those rights.

Charles Taliaferro, St. Olaf College, USA

Amongst the plethora of books on human rights, this book is remarkable. Firstly, it confronts two opposite and socially important perspectives of human rights: secular and religious. Secondly, it presents dialogues from both sides and the contributors present differing viewpoints on many issues. This is what makes the book especially exciting and I recommend it with a deep conviction.

Lech Morawski, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland

Since the publication of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, human rights have been an important element in bridging cultures. But what is the foundation of human rights? Can human rights be founded within secular culture or do we need religion for that? This is a central preoccupation in this interesting and important volume.

Afshin Ellian, Leiden University, The Netherlands

Taken together, the chapters collected in Legitimizing Human Rights serve to remind atheists that if they insist on removing all traces of the laws debt to the Biblical religions, they will have also undercut the most philosophically compelling grounds for upholding the idea of human rights.

Steve Fuller, University of Warwick, UK

One of the marks of an outstanding anthology is that its contributors confront the reader in such a way that he finds himself in an ebb and flow of dialogue, dissent, and agreement while paging through it. Thats how I found myself while reading this important collection. In an age in which religious belief is not taken seriously in the rarefied corridors of the academy, this book is a welcome contribution to the literature on human rights, theology, and religious liberty.

Francis J. Beckwith, Baylor University, USA

Legitimizing Human Rights

Secular and Religious Perspectives

Edited by
ANGUS J.L. MENUGE
Concordia University Wisconsin, USA

First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge

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Copyright Angus J.L. Menuge 2013

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Angus J.L. Menuge has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editor of this work.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Legitimizing human rights : secular and religious perspectives. -- (Applied legal philosophy)

1. Human rights--Philosophy. 2. Human rights--Religious aspects. 3. Freedom of religion.

I. Series II. Menuge, Angus J. L.

340.112-dc23

The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Menuge, Angus J. L.

Legitimizing human rights : secular and religious perspectives / by Angus J.L. Menuge.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-5002-3 (hardback)

1. Human rights. 2. Human rights--Religious aspects. 3. Secularism. I. Title.

K3240.M48 2013
323.442--dc23

2013000854

ISBN 9781409450023 (hbk)

Contents

Angus J.L. Menuge

Paul Copan

Paul Cliteur

Angus J.L. Menuge

Friedrich Toepel

John H. Calvert

Vito Breda

John Warwick Montgomery

Hendrik Kaptein

Dallas Miller

Dobrochna Bach-Golecka

Series Editors Preface

The objective of the Applied Legal Philosophy series is to publish work which adopts a theoretical approach to the study of particular areas or aspects of law or deals with general theories of law in a way which focused on issues of practical moral and political concern in specific legal contexts.

In recent years there has been an encouraging tendency for legal philosophers to utilize detailed knowledge of the substance and practicalities of law and a noteworthy development in the theoretical sophistication of much legal research. The series seeks to encourage these trends and to make available studies in law which are both genuinely philosophical in approach and at the same time based on appropriate legal knowledge and directed towards issues in the criticism and reform of actual laws and legal systems.

The series will include studies of all the main areas of law, presented in a manner which relates to the concerns of specialist legal academics and practitioners. Each book makes an original contribution to an area of legal study while being comprehensible to those engaged in a wide variety of disciplines. Their legal content is principally Anglo-American, but a wide-ranging comparative approach is encouraged and authors are drawn from a variety of jurisdictions.

Tom Campbell
Series Editor
Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics
Charles Sturt University, Canberra.

List of Contributors

Dr. Dobrochna Bach-Golecka is Associate Professor at the Department of European Law, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw. She holds a Ph.D. in public international law and a Ph.D. in divinity studies. Her recent publications and scientific interests include such topics as public health, regulation of services in European law, democracy and human rights, solidarity, and social values in Christian teaching. She was a visiting fellow at the Lauterpacht Center for International Law at Cambridge University in 2002, where she did research culminating in her book, Democracy in International Law.

Dr. Vito Breda (Ph.D. Edinburgh, LL.M. Brussels, LL.B. Milan) is lecturer of law at Cardiff Law School and holds a visiting professorship at the Faculty of Law of the Jesuit University of Deusto. His has written extensively on constitutional theory, jurisprudence, and citizenship. In 2010, he was appointed visiting fellow at the Center for European Studies at Canberra Australia National University and was one of the researchers of the FP5 EU Consent NetworkGroup 10 (Democracy Legitimacy and Identity). Most recently he was awarded a supervising professorship in comparative thought at the Law School of the Universit degli Studi di Brescia. Before joining the Cardiff Law School, Dr. Breda worked as researcher for the Scottish Parliament.

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