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Kohen, Ari. "Rights and Wrongs Without God: A Non-Religious Grounding for Human Rights in a Pluralistic World" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p42089_index.html>

Kohen, A. , 2005-09-01 "Rights and Wrongs Without God: A Non-Religious Grounding for Human Rights in a Pluralistic World" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p42089_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: In this paper, I put forward what I take to be a plausible non-religious foundation for the idea of human rights. In particular, I make a procedural and practical argument here, one that steps back from arguments about a universal human nature. To do so, I look to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to claim that human rights represent a political consensus of overlapping ideas from cultures and communities around the world. It is not simply that no single tradition was victorious in setting out the foundation of human rights that others could accept, though it is true that none was; instead, the Declaration�s chief virtue is that everyone was able to agree upon and endorse a common foundation: the dignity of the human person. The nations of the world may disagree on a great many things � philosophical as well as practical � but they have all agreed on this important point: every human being is entitled to the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration by virtue of the inherent dignity that is common to us all. This idea can be embraced by those who subscribe to what Michael Perry calls a religious cosmology and also by those who do not. In constructing this consensus, then, we have succeeded in establishing a practical non-religious foundation upon which the idea of human rights can rest.

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