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Moral Systems and the Evolution of Human RightsSecularizing Morality

Moral Systems and the Evolution of Human Rights: Secularizing Morality [In applying moral systems theory, this chapter illustrates the decoupling of morality from religion in many modern societies. Notions of civil rights were embedded in the constitutions of many modern nation-states, but the second world war and its incumbent Holocaust, combined with the successful moral war fought by Gandhi against colonial British rule, illustrated the inherent shortcomings of the nation-state as moral arbitrator. Human rights are described as the product of the world’s latest moral revolution.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Moral Systems and the Evolution of Human RightsSecularizing Morality

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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2015
ISBN
978-94-017-9550-0
Pages
55 –64
DOI
10.1007/978-94-017-9551-7_5
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Abstract

[In applying moral systems theory, this chapter illustrates the decoupling of morality from religion in many modern societies. Notions of civil rights were embedded in the constitutions of many modern nation-states, but the second world war and its incumbent Holocaust, combined with the successful moral war fought by Gandhi against colonial British rule, illustrated the inherent shortcomings of the nation-state as moral arbitrator. Human rights are described as the product of the world’s latest moral revolution.]

Published: Oct 28, 2014

Keywords: Secularization; Morality; Nation-state; Moral evolution; Human rights

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