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... United States of America10 9 8 7 6 5 4First Harvard University Press paperbackedition, 1992 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-PublicationDataPutnam,Hilary. Realism with a human face / HilaryPutnam;edited ... theory for the sake of satisfyingourdiscomfort,butitshould gowithoutsayingthatad hoc waysoutof a paradoxical sit-uation arenotacceptable.11 Realism with a Human Face Metaphysics10for ... Utopian; we can learn a great deal frompartialandeven fragmentary reconstructions,andwe can learn a great deal from reconstructingourbeliefs in alternative ways. "Deli-cate mutual adjustment"...

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... ”:HumanRightsandthePoliticsofFatalism’.28ForexampleBrownseemsinterestedneitherinaliberalnorahumanrightsper-spective;Benthamwasaliberalbutdidnotbelieveinhumanrights.29ForexcellentlegalcommentariesontheConvention,seereferencesgiveninnote1ofChapter2.30Critiqueswhicharenotdiscussedinthebookbutwouldhavebeenhighlyrelevantincludecommunitarianism,criticalracetheoryandstrandswithinthecriticallegalstudiesmovement.31Marie-Be´ne´dicteDembour,‘HumanRightsTalkandAnthropologicalAmbivalence:TheParticularContextsofUniversalClaims’,inOliviaHarris(ed.),InsideandOutsidetheLaw:AnthropologicalStudiesofAuthorityandAmbiguity(London:Routledge,1996)19–40.32ToborrowanexpressionfoundinDouzinas,EndofHumanRights,at4.33Thus,togiveafewexamples,IsurmiseinChapter8thatJackDonnelly(Politics),AlanGewirth(Philosophy),MichaelPerry(Law)andMichaelFreeman(Govern-ment)arenaturalscholars;MichaelIgnatieff(History),ConorGearty(Law)andRichardWilson(Anthropology)deliberativescholars;UpendraBaxi(Law),CostasDouzinas(Law),GuyHaarscher(Philosophy)andKenBooth(InternationalPolitics)protestscholars;TalalAsad(Anthropology),WendyBrown(Politics),MakauMutua(Law)andmyself(Law,withatraininginAnthropology)discoursescholars.Asthisbriefpresentationmakesclear,Idonotbelievethatfault-linesinscholarlydebatesabouthumanrightsfollowdisciplinaryboundaries.34Thus,MichaelIgnatieffqualifiesareligious-likeapproachtohumanrightsas‘ido-latry’:Ignatieff,HumanRights.Thissecular-likeapproachtohumanrights(whichdoesnotpreventdeliberativescholarsfrombeingreligiousintheprimarysenseoftheterm)isalsohumanist:Fagan,‘ParadoxicalBedfellows’.35IthinkIshouldbeallowedtheuseoftheword‘disciple’:GuyHaarscher,whomIclassifyasaprotestscholarinChapter8,usestheFrenchword‘dressage’(literallytraining, ... ”:HumanRightsandthePoliticsofFatalism’.28ForexampleBrownseemsinterestedneitherinaliberalnorahumanrightsper-spective;Benthamwasaliberalbutdidnotbelieveinhumanrights.29ForexcellentlegalcommentariesontheConvention,seereferencesgiveninnote1ofChapter2.30Critiqueswhicharenotdiscussedinthebookbutwouldhavebeenhighlyrelevantincludecommunitarianism,criticalracetheoryandstrandswithinthecriticallegalstudiesmovement.31Marie-Be´ne´dicteDembour,‘HumanRightsTalkandAnthropologicalAmbivalence:TheParticularContextsofUniversalClaims’,inOliviaHarris(ed.),InsideandOutsidetheLaw:AnthropologicalStudiesofAuthorityandAmbiguity(London:Routledge,1996)19–40.32ToborrowanexpressionfoundinDouzinas,EndofHumanRights,at4.33Thus,togiveafewexamples,IsurmiseinChapter8thatJackDonnelly(Politics),AlanGewirth(Philosophy),MichaelPerry(Law)andMichaelFreeman(Govern-ment)arenaturalscholars;MichaelIgnatieff(History),ConorGearty(Law)andRichardWilson(Anthropology)deliberativescholars;UpendraBaxi(Law),CostasDouzinas(Law),GuyHaarscher(Philosophy)andKenBooth(InternationalPolitics)protestscholars;TalalAsad(Anthropology),WendyBrown(Politics),MakauMutua(Law)andmyself(Law,withatraininginAnthropology)discoursescholars.Asthisbriefpresentationmakesclear,Idonotbelievethatfault-linesinscholarlydebatesabouthumanrightsfollowdisciplinaryboundaries.34Thus,MichaelIgnatieffqualifiesareligious-likeapproachtohumanrightsas‘ido-latry’:Ignatieff,HumanRights.Thissecular-likeapproachtohumanrights(whichdoesnotpreventdeliberativescholarsfrombeingreligiousintheprimarysenseoftheterm)isalsohumanist:Fagan,‘ParadoxicalBedfellows’.35IthinkIshouldbeallowedtheuseoftheword‘disciple’:GuyHaarscher,whomIclassifyasaprotestscholarinChapter8,usestheFrenchword‘dressage’(literallytraining, ... rights. Though this may come as a surprise to some readers, Marx was less scathing than Bentham in his critiqueof human rights. While he did not regard human rights as a panacea, MarxIntroduction...

... view that womenlack moral and/or epistemological agency.Irigaray’s text analyses the psychoanalytic view thatwomen are incapable of making authoritative statementsabout their own sexuality. ... is a physical and epistemologi-cal location as well as a state of being. Anzald´ua describesthe borderland as a vague and undetermined place cre-ated by the emotional residue of an unnatural ... The Anti-Social Family (1991), Barrett and Mary McIntosh articu-late how the social ideal of the family masks the reality offamily life and enables violence and abuse in the home.See Marxist...

... classification were alsoutilized. Adam named all the animals, a process that can be taken to be a form of taxonomic classification (Gen. 2:20).Alas, the created order did not remain Edenic. Adam ... of the material world alone, that what is real is whatis empirically verifiable.8Naturalists hold to a view of a human personknown as physicalism, asserting that a person is no more than his ... Babel:Excavated inscriptions indicate that these towers were meant to serve asstairways to heaven. They had a purely religious significance and had nopractical use apart from religious ritual....

... we treat beliefs based onsense perception as rational we should treat beliefs basedon mystical perception as rational too. Alston also taughtAlvin Plantinga when the latter was a graduate student.See ... ethical views,writing pamphlets against the use of the atom bomband against contraception, and even taking direct actionagainst abortion clinics. She was married to Peter ThomasGeach.See Aristotelianism; ... religiouslanguage, in which Thomas Aquinas claimed that mostimportant (non-negative) religious language about Godwas analogical.See equivocal; language, religious; univocalFurther reading: Ross...

... whose roots can be tracedback through Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (and arguably to IbnSina himself, insofar as the ‘modern’ Ash‘arites like al-Razi basically adopted a moderately Avicennan stance onthe ... RushdAvicenna: see Ibn SinaBaba Afdal: see Afdal al-Din KashaniBatinites (batiniyya): A term applied to those who emphasizethe inner (batin) meaning of a text over its external orapparent (zahir) ... occasion-alism; philosophy; Qadarites; al-Shahrastani; al-Razi(Fakhr al-Din); theologyFurther reading: al-Ash‘ari 1953; al-Ghazali 1997/2000;Watt 1948, 1973assimilation (tashbih, lit. ‘making...

... the past or anticipa-tions of external relationships yet to be. That relational aspect is atthe core of human nature and has ethical implications for those ofus who bear that human nature as ... not accidental; it has a universal reason.These generally extant norms must be affirmed and administeredby any human society that makes claims upon its members as ra-tional and free human persons, ... universal manifestation. Therefore, acceptance of natural lawis not at odds with acceptance of divine law; it is the beginning of human acceptance of divine law. “Happy is the human person[adam]...

... extract from Chapter VII: ‘God and the Vedas’, Satyarth Prakash(The Light of Truth), English translation from the Hindi by Ganga Prasad Upa-dhyaya (Allahabad: Dr Ratnakumari Svadhyaya Samsthana, ... what Manu says: ‘Agni-vayu-ravibhyastu trayam brahma sana-tanam. Dudoha yajna siddhyarthamrg-yajuh-sama laksanam’(Manusmrti, I.23).In the beginning of the Universe, God first created men and ... Malaviya. An Historical Biography (Varanasi: BHU, 1985),2 vols.26S.L. Dar and S. Somaskandan, History of the Benares Hindu University (Banaras: BHU, 1966).SWAMI DAYANANDA SARASWATI 35are beginningless,...