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The limits of ethics in international relations : natural law, natural rights, and human rights in transition / David Boucher.
LIBRA JZ1306 .B68 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boucher, David, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International relations--Moral and ethical aspects.
- International relations.
- Human rights.
- Natural law.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 421 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- Classical natural law and the law of nations: the Greeks and the Romans
- Christian natural law: a universal morality
- Natural law, the law of nations, and the transition to natural rights
- Natural rights and social exclusion: cultural encounters
- Natural rights: descriptive and prescriptive
- Natural rights and their critics
- Slavery and racism in natural law and natural rights
- Nonsense upon stilts? Tocqueville, idealism, and the expansion of the moral community
- The human rights culture and its discontents
- Modern constitutive theories of human rights
- Human rights and the judicial revolution
- Women and human rights.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [379]-408) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199203529
- 0199203520
- OCLC:
- 276817454
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