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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: limits of ethics in international relations
    sub title: natural law, natural rights, and human rights in transition
  name:
    name part: Boucher, David
    name part: 1951-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (vii, 421 pages)
  abstract: 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.
  table of 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.
  note: David Boucher.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: International relations
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Human rights
  subject:
    topic: Natural law
  subject:
    topic: Relations internationales
    topic: Aspect moral
  subject:
    topic: Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
  subject:
    topic: Droit naturel
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Human rights
  subject:
    topic: International relations
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Natural law
  classification: JZ1306 .B68 2009eb
  classification: 172.4
  classification: 08.38
  classification: 89.70
  classification: MD 4400
  classification: NK 7050
  classification: 3,6
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