Subject: Re: [HAB:] What makes a human right universal?
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 13:24:13 +0000


but isnt moral claim one validity claim among other validity claims?

ali


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From: FREDWELFARE-AT-aol.com
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Subject: Re: [HAB:] What makes a human right universal?
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 22:01:44 EST

In a message dated 11/23/2003 8:50:47 PM Eastern Standard Time,
ali_m_rizvi-AT-hotmail.com writes:
How you demarcate morality from validity for example?
And btw it is a big presupposition to make unless you are defining morality
and rationality in terms of human rights.
Rationality is certainly a matter of human rights, equal human rights.  The
demarcation between morality and validity is that morality is a given 
dilemma
that we face as part of our human condition and validity is the making of a
judgment about the quality of our moral decisions.  Morality as fairness or
morality as respect or even the problem of 'why be moral'
is beyond the more practical problem of compliance with moral obligations 
for
the sake of extrinsic/intrinsic rewards.  This discussion of motivation is
certainly relevant but distinct from the validity judgments of moral 
decisions
or what qualifies these decisions.

Fred


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