Overview
Introduction PART I: UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE IMPOVERISHMENT OF MORAL DISCOURSE The History of Human Rights in International Law The Relativism of Universality Human Rights as Moral Principles PART II: SOUL KEEPING AND STATE BUILDING: PRINCIPLES AND POLITICS FROM PLATO TO MACHIAVELLI Natural Right: The "Philosophic Quest for the First Things" in Plato and Aristotle The Philosophic First Things in the Light of Christianity Machiavelli and the Low Road to Modernity PART III: THE DECLINE OF TRUTH AND THE RISE OF RIGHTS IN THE THOUGHT OF GROTIUS AND LOCKE The Grotian Answer to the Machiavellian Challenge Locke's Natural Law: The Answer to Grotius's Prayer PART IV: BEING AND GOODNESS: THE ALPHA AND OMEGA OF HUMAN RIGHTS Dignity in the Breach: The Human Being and the Concentration Camp Being and Goodness: The Essence of Life and Law in the Philosophy of St. Thomas The Logical Impossibility of Abortion as a Human Right Conclusion
This item is Non-Returnable
Customers Also Bought
Details
- ISBN-13: 9781349536931
- ISBN-10: 1349536938
- Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- Publish Date: August 2007
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.59 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.73 pounds
- Page Count: 240
Related Categories
