| Description |
vii, 421 p. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
International relations -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Human rights.
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Natural law.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780199203529 (hbk.) |
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0199203520 (hbk.) |
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