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COMPARATIVE ETHICS, A COMMON MORALITY, AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Author(s) -
Twiss Sumner B.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of religious ethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.306
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 1467-9795
pISSN - 0384-9694
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9795.2005.00242.x
Subject(s) - morality , human rights , democracy , environmental ethics , political science , epistemology , sociology , law , law and economics , philosophy , politics
This essay is a brief attempt to summarize and evaluate the contributions that Democracy and Tradition makes to the field of comparative ethics. It is argued that the potential impact of these contributions would be strengthened by engagement with the common morality already imbedded in international human rights norms.