The limits of ethics in international relations: natural law, natural rights, and human rights in transition
Boucher, David
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. INDICE: Introduction; 1: Classical Natural Law and the Law of Nations: TheGreeks and The Romans; 2: Christian Natural Law; 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 Revolutions; 12: Women and Human Rights; Conclusion; References
- ISBN: 978-0-19-969146-3
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 432
- Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés