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- Title: Floors Without Foundations: Ignatieff and Rorty on Human Rights (Michael Ignatieff, Richard Rorty)
- Author : Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 246 KB
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Compare the following passages: All four authors believe that, even though some type and level of agreement can be reached on the ascription of specific rights to human beings, there remains an insoluble philosophical problem in speaking about such practical matters in speculative terms. The problem can be variously described as metaethical, metaphysical, or foundational. At its center is the plurality of competing comprehensive views of the good. Because such views have largely proven incompatible, at least three of the authors quoted shy away from invoking them. Yet not all agree that conflicts between conceptions of the good are irresolvable; nonetheless, all do agree that in pragmatic terms--in terms of trying to accomplish some modicum of justice here and now in world politics--engaging in a debate between comprehensive views is unsatisfactory. This does not entail that the views themselves are irrelevant to the kinds of and participants in agreements reached. Obviously, some comprehensive views are simply unacceptable, as it were, particularly those that exclude toleration. Agreement on specific rights prioritizes particular practices to universal justifications. Such justifications cannot be permanently ignored, however. And yet to prioritize pragmatic political agreement about what can and should be done here and now in this way is, I think, an inescapable, even though radically incomplete, panacea for peaceful coexistence in modern, globally connected communities.