Daniel Philpott is Professor of Political Science and Peace Studies and Director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights at the University of Notre Dame. He is author most recently of Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation (Oxford, 2012) and, with Monica Duffy Toft and Timothy Samuel Shah, God’s Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics (Norton, 2011).
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Published in: openGlobalRights-openpageNo human rights without God
Human rights need God because three ingredients are critical to their validity: universal moral norms, human...