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Thaddeus Registered User (5/2/02 3:34 pm) Reply |
Maritain Hello: Anyone have any thought on the work of Jacques Maritain regarding human rights? Was he right? Did he adopt liberalism without intending it? I am referring specifically to his work "Man and the State" and his chapter "The Democratic Charter." Thaddeus |
JimKalb  ezOP (5/3/02 6:11 am) Reply 
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Re: Maritain I haven't read that much by him on the subject. Wasn't his point that people with very different views can agree on some basic list of human rights? That would make him a sort of precursor of Rawls' Liberalism. The problem I have with the line of thought (if that was his line of thought) is that the principle that's authoritative in the highest political community eventually becomes authoritative in all things. The reason is that the highest community has ultimate responsibility for ensuring peace and so must be able to demand a loyalty that overrides all others. The "human rights" theory makes some list of rights everyone agrees to the authoritative principle of the highest political community. Since there's no list that everyone agrees to, the list will in fact be one that someone decides everyone should agree to if differing substantive views of the good are ignored. In other words, it will be a restatement of liberalism. The consequence: liberalism will become authoritative in the highest political community and thence everywhere else. Eventually it will become illegal to distribute the bible. Jim Kalb |
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