What's Wrong with Rights? argues that contemporary rights-talk obscures the importance civic virtue, military effectiveness and the democratic law legitimacy. It draws upon legal and moral philosophy, moral theology, and court judgments. It spans discussions from medieval Christendom to contemporary debates about justified killing.
What's Wrong with Rights? argues that contemporary rights-talk obscures the importance civic virtue, military effectiveness and the democratic law legitimacy. It draws upon legal and moral philosophy, moral theology, and court judgments. It spans discussions from medieval Christendom to contemporary debates about justified killing.
Nigel Biggar, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology, and Director of the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Life, University of Oxford
Inhaltsangabe
* Acknowledgements * Introduction * 1: Are there Natural Rights? 1: The Sceptical Tradition * 2: Are there Natural Rights? 2: The Sceptical Critique and Rights before 1776 * 3: Are there Natural Rights? 3: The Sceptical Critique and Rights after 1776 * 4: Are there Natural Rights? 4: The Sceptical Critique and the modern Roman Catholic Tradition * 5: Are there Natural Rights? 5: The Sceptical Critique and Contemporary Theories * 6: What's Wrong with Subjective Rights? * 7: Are there Absolute Rights? * 8: Are Human Rights Universal? * 9: What's Wrong with Rights in Ethics? * 10: What's Wrong with (some) Judges? 1: Al-Skeini, Al-Jedda, Smith, and the Fog of War * 11: What's Wrong with (some) Judges? 2: Carter and the Invention of a Right to 'Physician-assisted Dying' * 12: What's Wrong with (some) Human Rights Lawyers? * Conclusion * Bibliography
* Acknowledgements * Introduction * 1: Are there Natural Rights? 1: The Sceptical Tradition * 2: Are there Natural Rights? 2: The Sceptical Critique and Rights before 1776 * 3: Are there Natural Rights? 3: The Sceptical Critique and Rights after 1776 * 4: Are there Natural Rights? 4: The Sceptical Critique and the modern Roman Catholic Tradition * 5: Are there Natural Rights? 5: The Sceptical Critique and Contemporary Theories * 6: What's Wrong with Subjective Rights? * 7: Are there Absolute Rights? * 8: Are Human Rights Universal? * 9: What's Wrong with Rights in Ethics? * 10: What's Wrong with (some) Judges? 1: Al-Skeini, Al-Jedda, Smith, and the Fog of War * 11: What's Wrong with (some) Judges? 2: Carter and the Invention of a Right to 'Physician-assisted Dying' * 12: What's Wrong with (some) Human Rights Lawyers? * Conclusion * Bibliography
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