caa a22 4500 388113359 CHVBK 20180307125359.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/1051778 doi S0748081400004392 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/1051778 Lerner Natan Review Essay a Secular View of Human Rights [Elektronische Daten] [Natan Lerner] Michael J. Perry's The Idea of Human Rights: Four Inquiries is a major contribution to the clarification of the idea of human rights, which he considers to be, for many, the most difficult of all the influential moral ideas to take center stage in the twentieth century. He argues that it is, "in one form or another,” an "old idea” and opens his Introduction with a quotation from Leszek Kolakowski dismissing the assertion that "the idea of human rights is of recent origin.” For someone who is as ready to admit being a "secular enthusiast of human rights” as the author of this comment, Perry's denial of the fact that human rights constitute a recent phenomenon certainly "poses a problem.” The problem is really essential with regard to Perry's foundational conviction advanced in Chapter I, where he claims that the idea of human rights is ineliminably, inescapably, religious, and that so is the view that "every human being is sacred.” Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 1999 Journal of Law and Religion Cambridge University Press 14/1(1999), 67-76 0748-0814 14:1<67 1999 14 JLR https://doi.org/10.2307/1051778 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/1051778 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Lerner Natan NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Law and Religion Cambridge University Press 14/1(1999), 67-76 0748-0814 14:1<67 1999 14 JLR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge