http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif Secularism, religion, and the public sphere Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:00:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2009/02/24/justice-and-rights-talk-in-liberal-democracies/ http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2009/02/24/justice-and-rights-talk-in-liberal-democracies/#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:16:33 +0000 Kevin den Dulk http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/?p=1268 Nicholas Wolterstorff's Justice: Rights and Wrongs is a profoundly ambitious book.  His normative aspiration is nothing less than "speaking up for the wronged of the world" by reorienting contemporary thinking on rights and justice. ... But what about the practice of liberal democracy?  What would it mean to govern so that members of a society can "enjoy the goods to which they have a right"?  Justice is not a book of practical application, but it is clearly on Wolterstorff's mind.]]> http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2009/02/24/justice-and-rights-talk-in-liberal-democracies/feed/ 1