Islam and Human Rights: The Search for an Overlapping Consensus
This dissertation begins by emphasizing a distinction between demands of justice and requirements of human rights. In order to clarify this distinction, I explain two predominant views on human rights: humanitarianism (minimalist) and cosmopolitan egalitarianism (maximalist) as unsound and unreasona...
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| Online Access: | http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/7196/1/Houshmand_PhD_S2011.pdf Houshmand, Hossein <http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/view/creators/Houshmand=3AHossein=3A=3A.html> (2010) Islam and Human Rights: The Search for an Overlapping Consensus. PhD thesis, Concordia University. |