The limits of ethics in international relations : natural law, natural rights, and human rights in transition /
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 rol...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 421 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191547973 0191547972 9780199203529 0199203520 9780191695490 0191695491 1282268457 9781282268456 9786612268458 661226845X |