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Rights Of Nature And Indigenous Cosmovision: A Fundamental Inquiry, Jingjing Wu
Rights Of Nature And Indigenous Cosmovision: A Fundamental Inquiry, Jingjing Wu
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In this paper, I ask whether we can weigh and balance indigenous cosmovision—the reasoning used as the main source of legitimacy in some rights of nature legislation—within a secular legal system. I examine three barriers that rights of nature and their corollary spiritual reasoning are likely to encounter if they are invoked in secular courts: (a) spiritual reasoning is non-defeasible (Part 3) and (b) irrational (Part 4), and (3) the current concept of human rights as a universal legal norm is based on a circular logic (Part 5). In order to overcome these barriers, I draw inspiration from Dworkin’s ‘rights …
Commentary On A Perspective Of Objectivity In The Human Rights Arguments, Danny Marrero
Commentary On A Perspective Of Objectivity In The Human Rights Arguments, Danny Marrero
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