The limits of ethics in international relations : natural law, natural rights, and human rights in transition / David Boucher.

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:

1 online resource (432 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ethical constraints on relations among individuals within and between societies have always reflected or invoked a higher authority than the caprices of human will. For over two thousand years Natural Law and Natural Rights were the constellations of ideas and presuppositions that fulfilled this role in the west, and exhibited far greater similarities than most commentators want to admit. Such ideas were the lens through which Europeans evaluated the rest of the world. In his majornew book David Boucher rejects the view that Natural Rights constituted a secularisation of Natural Law ideas by s

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-282-26845-7

0-19-154797-2

9786612268458

OCLC:

435942169