“THE PRINCIPLE OF GENRIC CONSISTENCY” (FOR ALAN GEWIRTH) *

Is there objective moral order

In what we call the universe?

This question is a real ripsnorter

Which some may even think perverse.

My conscience tells me that it’s moral

To pick a theologic quarrel

With born-agains who, like the pope,

Would claim he’s got the holy dope.

It’s false I know but on reflection

The answers of an Alan Gewirth,

Which logically are more than worth

The Pope’s, can offer this conception:

The answer to our moral blights

Lies in Gewirth’s thought on HUMAN RIGHTS.

* Gewirth’s arguments for an objective moral order that is secular in nature are set forth in two books: “Reason and Morality” and “The Community of Rights.”