Against Wolterstorff's Theistic Attempt to Ground Human Rights

Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 12 (1):127-134 (2017)
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This article responds to Nicholas Wolterstorff's attempt to ground human rights in the condition of being loved by God.

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10.26556/jesp.v12i1.218

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On human rights.James Griffin - 2008 - New York: Oxford University Press.
A dilemma for wolterstorff’s theistic grounding of human dignity and rights.Jordan Wessling - 2014 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 76 (3):277-295.
Basic human worth : Religious and secular perspectives.Christopher J. Eberle - 2008 - In Yujin Nagasawa & Erik J. Wielenberg (eds.), New waves in philosophy of religion. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan. pp. 167.

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