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Discourse Theory and Human Rights*
Author(s) -
ALEXY ROBERT
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
ratio juris
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1467-9337
pISSN - 0952-1917
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9337.1996.tb00241.x
Subject(s) - argument (complex analysis) , human rights , foundation (evidence) , epistemology , sociology , philosophy , law and economics , political science , law , biochemistry , chemistry
. The author's thesis is that human rights can be substantiated on the basis of discourse theory. The argument has two steps. The first step is the justification of the rules of discourse. The second step consists in the foundation of human rights.