Buddhism and the Idea of Human Rights: Resonances and Dissonances

Schmidt-Leukel, Perry

doi:10.1353/bcs.2006.0024

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“…from every obligation claim to a corresponding right cannot be deduced (Ihara, 1998). While Ihara may be true in holding the opinion that every obligation doesn't lead to a claim to a corresponding right yet Ihara himself admits that legitimate rights do lead to the moral obligation of others to revere and not breach others' rights (Schmidt-Leukel, 2006). Some rights are independent of obligations for example; children's rights, animal rights, and rights of differently-abled people, etc.…”

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“…However, it is worth noting that human rights cannot be illimitable as this may engender an impediment for harmony and social balance as Article 29 of the UDHR rightly states that these rights are circumscribed at the just rights of others and every man has social and fundamental obligations towards his fellow-men. Human rights and human obligations should complement and not supersede each other (Schmidt-Leukel, 2006). But, the accentuation on obligations and responsibilities should not be an exculpation for gainsaying to accord legal protection to an individual's freedom of self-determination.…”

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Ancient Vedic Literature and Human Rights: Resonances and Dissonances

Kumar

Choudhury

2020

Cogent Social Sciences

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The Vedic literature constitutes the fulcrum of Sanskrit literature and is repositories of some fundamental concepts of human rights. This manuscript endeavors to decode the tenets of human rights concealed in the Vedic texts. It further endeavors to view a connection between archaic Vedic literature and human rights and approaches the subject of human rights from the perspectives of Vedic texts. As an articulated concept, human rights have distinct western inception though the elements that constitute the concept postulate different cultural forms and are found in sundry civilizations of which one is Vedic civilization. The Vedic rights are certainly not akin to modern-day human rights but then it would not be feasible to expect much from the texts that are approximately 3500 to 4000 years old. Though the Vedic literature vividly resonates with some rudimentary conceptions of human rights, the relationship between Vedic literature and human rights is not entirely smooth and tension free. This manuscript withal fixates on the incongruities subsisting between Vedic literature and human rights.

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Ancient Vedic Literature and Human Rights: Resonances and Dissonances

Kumar

Choudhury

2020

Cogent Social Sciences

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“…58 In these traditions it is my, or our, duty to others that is the starting point for moral decisions, and ideas of rights are secondarily derived from such a position. This is in sharp contrast to the rights-based approach which starts with 'my' or 'our' rights, and then derives corresponding duties from that.…”

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Human Rights and Critical Whiteness: Whose Humanity?

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Ife

2008

The International Journal of Human Rights

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Human rights have been used since the establishment of the United Nations after World War II to prevent violations by formulating an ideal of humanity where respect and dignity are central. While many writers have questioned their validity given the origins of human rights as a Western project, this paper takes the critique further by positing that notions of 'the human' used by human rights occurred during the European Enlightenment and could thus not escape their cultural boundaries. However, this paper goes further still by using the notion of racialised privilege from critical whiteness studies to suggest that human rights is also a discourse that proclaims the original knowledges of white privilege, and hence those whose interests it advances. We look to some post-modern thinkers to consider a position that allows other knowledges to emerge 'from below'.

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“…Since leaving Munich Schmidt-Leukel has published widely in the field of interreligious theology. His two most recent major contributions to the field of inter-religious dialogue and understanding which we shall review here build on the pluralist understanding of religions which he developed in a trilogy of books: God Beyond Boundaries (German 2005, ET 2017), Understanding Buddhism (2006) and Religious Pluralism and Interreligious Theology: The Gifford Lectures -An Extended Edition (2017).…”

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Interreligious Dialogue as a Mutual Learning Process

Riches

2023

The Expository Times

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Buddhism and the Idea of Human Rights: Resonances and Dissonances

Cited by 11 publications

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Ancient Vedic Literature and Human Rights: Resonances and Dissonances

Ancient Vedic Literature and Human Rights: Resonances and Dissonances

Human Rights and Critical Whiteness: Whose Humanity?

Interreligious Dialogue as a Mutual Learning Process

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