Beyond “Christian Human Rights”: Simone Weil on Dignity and the Impersonal
Whereas the idea of human rights is often imagined as placing limits on the political sphere from a standpoint outside it, I argue that it is better conceived as a political project that draws authority from its claim to be apolitical. Such an understanding enables us to historicize human rights and...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2020]
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Interdisciplinary journal for religion and transformation in contemporary society
Year: 2020, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 107-117 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Weil, Simone 1909-1943
/ Human dignity
/ Catholicism
/ Personalization
/ Criticism
/ Value ethics
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| RelBib Classification: | NBE Anthropology NCA Ethics |
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Dignity
B Human Rights B Personalism B Simone Weil |
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