Who is my neighbor? : personalism and the foundations of human rights /
Over the past half century the language of human rights has gained such dominance in moral, civic, and ecclesiastical discourse that ethical and social questions are increasingly framed in terms of rights. Yet the vast literature dealing with human and civil rights focuses almost exclusively on the...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Catholic University of America Press,
2005.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part one: Rights in the crosshairs
- Defining human rights
- Some needed nuances
- The church and human rights
- Part two: The case against rights
- The accusation of nonexistence
- The accusation of inseparability
- The accusation of innovation
- Part three: A new solution to an old problem : thomistic personalism
- A personalism primer
- The person according to personalism
- Dignity and its due
- The two loves
- From love to human rights
- Christ and human dignity
- Part four: Human rights and classical ethics
- Natural law
- Natural justice
- Natural rights in classical theory
- Part five: Towards an ethics of solidarity
- Who is my neighbor?