The Limits of Ethics in International Relations : Natural Law, Natural Rights, and Human Rights in Transition.
Title:
The Limits of Ethics in International Relations : Natural Law, Natural Rights, and Human Rights in Transition.
Author:
Boucher, David.
ISBN:
9780191547973
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (432 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Classical Natural Law and the Law of Nations: The Greeks and the Romans -- 2. Christian Natural Law: A Universal Morality -- 3. Natural Law, the Law of Nations, and the Transition to Natural Rights -- 4. Natural Rights and Social Exclusion: Cultural Encounters -- 5. Natural Rights: Descriptive and Prescriptive -- 6. Natural Rights and Their Critics -- 7. Slavery and Racism in Natural Law and Natural Rights -- 8. Nonsense Upon Stilts? Tocqueville, Idealism, and the Expansion of the Moral Community -- 9. The Human Rights Culture and Its Discontents -- 10. Modern Constitutive Theories of Human Rights -- 11. Human Rights and the Juridical Revolution -- 12. Women and Human Rights -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
In his major new work, David Boucher surveys the history of thinking about human rights and shows that far from being seen as universal and emancipatory, they have almost always privileged certain groups in relation to others.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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