Nigel Biggar (Regius Professor of Moral and and Pastoral Theology

What's Wrong with Rights?

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What's Wrong with Rights? argues that contemporary rights-talk obscures the importance of civic virtue, corrodes military effectiveness, and subverts the democratic legitimacy of law. It draws upon legal and moral philosophy, moral theology, and court judgments. The discussion ranges from medieval Christendom to debates about justified killing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 153mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 560g
• ISBN-13: 9780192867278
• ISBN-10: 019286727X
• Artikelnr.: 63459638

Autorenporträt

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