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Maritain on Human Dignity and Human Rights
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December 2008 marked the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, arguably the single most important and influential document endorsed by the United Nations. Jacques Maritain was a primary author of the religious liberty clauses ofthe 1948 Declaration, and the most prominent Christian philosopher ofthe twentieth century. Maritain developed a radical critique of prevailing Westem political and social thought. A persuasive critic of secular humanism and legal positivism, Maritain sought a cultural renewal of Christian Europe by means of rediscovering an integral Christian humanism. This essay explores the central ideas in Maritain's philosophical defense of universal human rights. Maritain placed the philosophical foundation of human rights in natural law, and assumed the existence of a "natural spirituality of intelligence" grasped by a connatural, pre-philosophic intuition. Yet Pope Benedict XVI challenges the central philosophical assumptions at the foundation of Maritain's defense of human rights.
Title: Maritain on Human Dignity and Human Rights
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December 2008 marked the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, arguably the single most important and influential document endorsed by the United Nations.
Jacques Maritain was a primary author of the religious liberty clauses ofthe 1948 Declaration, and the most prominent Christian philosopher ofthe twentieth century.
Maritain developed a radical critique of prevailing Westem political and social thought.
A persuasive critic of secular humanism and legal positivism, Maritain sought a cultural renewal of Christian Europe by means of rediscovering an integral Christian humanism.
This essay explores the central ideas in Maritain's philosophical defense of universal human rights.
Maritain placed the philosophical foundation of human rights in natural law, and assumed the existence of a "natural spirituality of intelligence" grasped by a connatural, pre-philosophic intuition.
Yet Pope Benedict XVI challenges the central philosophical assumptions at the foundation of Maritain's defense of human rights.
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