Morality matters /

Does morality still matter in the Western world today? What is the basis of claims to human rights? How are local loyalties - to family or nation - to be reconciled with our global responsibilities? Are there limits on the rights of groups? Does law need a moral basis? In this timely book, Roger Tri...

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Main Author: Trigg, Roger
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Does morality still matter in the Western world today? What is the basis of claims to human rights? How are local loyalties - to family or nation - to be reconciled with our global responsibilities? Are there limits on the rights of groups? Does law need a moral basis? In this timely book, Roger Trigg examines and defends the role of morality in our social and political lives. Rather than limiting the scope of morality to private choices, Trigg argues that we need to acknowledge the moral foundations of our political way of life in the West, in order that we are better able to live and flourish nationally and internationally.
Physical Description:1 online resource (vii, 179 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-174) and index.
ISBN:9780470690222
0470690224
9780470779934
0470779934
9780631235941
0631235949
9780631235958
0631235957