Author's Keywords: Keywords: human rights, comparative political theory, cross-cultural discourse, dialogue, hermeneutics, Humanität, Johann Gottfried Herder, religion, pluralism, communitarianism	Convention Submission, Review, and Scheduling! All Academic Convention can help with all of your abstract management needs and many more. Contact us today for a quote! Submission - Custom fields, multiple submission types, tracks, audio visual, multiple upload formats, automatic conversion to pdf. Review - Peer Review, Bulk reviewer assignment, bulk emails, ranking, z-score statistics, and multiple worksheets! Reports - Many standard and custom reports generated while you wait. Print programs with participant indexes, event grids, and more! Scheduling - Flexible and convenient grid scheduling within rooms and buildings. Conflict checking and advanced filtering. Communication - Bulk email tools to help your administrators send reminders and responses. Use form letters, a message center, and much more! Management - Search tools, duplicate people management, editing tools, submission transfers, many tools to manage a variety of conference management headaches! Click here for more information.
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Fox, Russell. "&#65279;Human Rights and Humanität: An Exploration of Religious Hermeneutics and Cross-Cultural Discourse" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, Aug 28, 2002 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p66427_index.html>

Fox, R. A. , 2002-08-28 "&#65279;Human Rights and Humanität: An Exploration of Religious Hermeneutics and Cross-Cultural Discourse" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p66427_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Cross-cultural discourse is necessary if the next step in the articulation and extension of the human rights ideal is to be taken. Confronted with the need for a theory of cross-cultural discourse, contemporary thinkers must consider a variety of methodologies and processes. This paper draws on the work of several theorists to propose that a shift in our conception of human rights, to one that uses a more hermeneutical paradigm, is most useful at the current moment. But a hermeneutical approach to human rights discourse must have some sort of normative grounding; there must be an ontological framework which brings some moral significance to the process of cognitive and linguistic construction and investigation. The second half of this paper takes this criticism to heart, and considers what implications it has for the worldview which a properly conceived comparative political philosophy seems to mandate. My response is to consider in some depth one possible model of religious hermeneutics which situates the cognitive and linguistic work of discourse within just such an ontological framework: Johann Gottfried Herder's philosophy of language as a communal, revelatory field. The potential moral achievement of engaging with one another in that field Herder called "Humanität," and in the conclusion of my paper, its relationship to human rights doctrine, and methodological contributions to it, are considered.

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