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Who is my neighbor? : personalism and the foundations of human rights / Thomas D. Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Thomas D., 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural law--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
- Natural law.
- Human rights--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
- Human rights.
- Neo-Scholasticism.
- Personalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (359 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Who Is My Neighbor? makes an original, compelling case for human rights as moral entitlements grounded in the dignity of the human person.
- Contents:
- Part one: Rights in the crosshairs
- Defining human rights
- Some needed nuances
- The church and human rights
- Part two: The case against rights
- The accusation of nonexistence
- The accusation of inseparability
- The accusation of innovation
- Part three: A new solution to an old problem : thomistic personalism
- A personalism primer
- The person according to personalism
- Dignity and its due
- The two loves
- From love to human rights
- Christ and human dignity
- Part four: Human rights and classical ethics
- Natural law
- Natural justice
- Natural rights in classical theory
- Part five: Towards an ethics of solidarity
- Who is my neighbor?
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-334) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8132-1666-4
- OCLC:
- 646786272
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