Jeremy Seth Geddert

Hugo Grotius and the Modern Theology of Freedom

Transcending Natural Rights

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book uncovers in secular rights pioneer Hugo Grotius a rights theory that points toward the enlargement of individual responsibility.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781138695948
• ISBN-10: 1138695947
• Artikelnr.: 47735289

Autorenporträt

Jeremy Seth Geddert is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Assumption College. He has published on natural rights, early modern political thought, religion and politics, and the just war tradition.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Grotius and Modern Natural Rights: Beyond A Secular History 2. Natural
Right and Natural Rights 3. Two Concepts of Justice 4. The Origins of the
State: How and Why? 5. The Bounds of Coercive Authority: Sovereignty and
Rebellion 6. Rights and the Responsibility (Not) to Punish 7. Punitive War
and International Responsibility 8. Divine Government: Why You Can't Ever
Really Pay For Your Crimes 9. Transcending Natural Rights, or Rethinking
the Foundations of Modern Political Secularism