The limits of ethics in international relations : natural law, natural rights, and human rights in transition /

Ethical constraints on relations among individuals within and between societies have always reflected or invoked a higher authority than the caprices of human will. For over two thousand years Natural Law and Natural Rights were the constellations of ideas and presuppositions that fulfilled this rol...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Boucher, David, 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
International relations > Moral and ethical aspects.
Human rights.
Natural law.
Relations internationales > Aspect moral.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
Droit naturel.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Human rights
International relations > Moral and ethical aspects
Natural law
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Classical natural law and the law of nations: the Greeks and the Romans
  • Christian natural law: a universal morality
  • Natural law, the law of nations, and the transition to natural rights
  • Natural rights and social exclusion: cultural encounters
  • Natural rights: descriptive and prescriptive
  • Natural rights and their critics
  • Slavery and racism in natural law and natural rights
  • Nonsense upon stilts? Tocqueville, idealism, and the expansion of the moral community
  • The human rights culture and its discontents
  • Modern constitutive theories of human rights
  • Human rights and the judicial revolution
  • Women and human rights.

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