عنوان

Beyond "Christian Human Rights":

شماره

LA116564

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Beyond "Christian Human Rights":

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Simone Weil on Dignity and the Impersonal

نام نخستين پديدآور

Richard Amesbury

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill | Schöningh

متن يادداشت

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 to assess it politically and morally, alongside other normative projects. Samuel Moyn has argued that the contemporary understanding of human rights as rooted in the dignity of the person emerged out of twentieth-century Catholic personalist theology. In the latter half of the essay I consider Simone Weil's objections to the personalist conception of dignity and suggest that Weil's idea of an impersonal, sovereign good provides an alternative conception of value. 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 to assess it politically and morally, alongside other normative projects. Samuel Moyn has argued that the contemporary understanding of human rights as rooted in the dignity of the person emerged out of twentieth-century Catholic personalist theology. In the latter half of the essay I consider Simone Weil's objections to the personalist conception of dignity and suggest that Weil's idea of an impersonal, sovereign good provides an alternative conception of value. 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 to assess it politically and morally, alongside other normative projects. Samuel Moyn has argued that the contemporary understanding of human rights as rooted in the dignity of the person emerged out of twentieth-century Catholic personalist theology. In the latter half of the essay I consider Simone Weil's objections to the personalist conception of dignity and suggest that Weil's idea of an impersonal, sovereign good provides an alternative conception of value. 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 to assess it politically and morally, alongside other normative projects. Samuel Moyn has argued that the contemporary understanding of human rights as rooted in the dignity of the person emerged out of twentieth-century Catholic personalist theology. In the latter half of the essay I consider Simone Weil's objections to the personalist conception of dignity and suggest that Weil's idea of an impersonal, sovereign good provides an alternative conception of value.

تاريخ نشر

2020

توصيف ظاهري

107-117

عنوان

Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society

شماره جلد

6/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

2364-2807

اصطلاح موضوعی

dignity

اصطلاح موضوعی

human rights

اصطلاح موضوعی

personalism

اصطلاح موضوعی

Simone Weil

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Richard Amesbury

شماره بازیابی

10.30965/23642807-00601007

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y