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Truth, politics, and universal human rights /
This book uses the concept of universal human rights to explore the relationship between the individual, society, and truth. To answer the question of how we say something universally true about human beings while lacking the philosophical means to do so, the author explores the changing relationshi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Basingstoke, Hampshire :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Universal Human Rights and the Impoverishment of Moral Discourse; Chapter 1 The History of Human Rights in International Law; Chapter 2 The Relativism of Universality; Chapter 3 Human Rights as Moral Principles; Part II: Soul Keeping and State Building: Principles and Politics from Plato to Machiavelli; Chapter 4 Natural Right: The ""Philosophic Quest for the First Things"" in Plato and Aristotle; Chapter 5 The Philosophic First Things in the Light of Christianity; Chapter 6 Machiavelli and the Low Road to Modernity.
- Part III: The Decline of Truth and the Rise of Rights in the Thought of Grotius and LockeChapter 7 The Grotian Response to the Realist Challenge; Chapter 8 Locke's Natural Law: The Answer to Grotius's Prayer; Part IV: Being and Goodness: The Alpha and Omega of Human Rights; Chapter 9 Being and Goodness: The Essence of Life and Law in the Philosophy of St. Thomas; Chapter 10 The Logical Impossibility of Abortion as a Human Right; Conclusion; Notes; 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; Z.