Title: Towards a critical political ethics : Catholic ethics and social challenges /
Authors: Haker, Hille; Greening, Molly
Publisher: Schwabe Verlag ; Echter Verlag,
Year: 2020
Subjects: Catholic Church; Christian ethics Catholic authors; Human rights Religious aspects Catholic Church; Women's rights Religious aspects Catholic Church
Abstract: "In her book Hille Haker pleads for a radical course correction of Catholic social ethics by focusing on three foundational concepts of social ethics: human rights, human dignity and moral responsibility based on the interplay of compassion, solidarity and justice. The author argues for a historically and politically mediated ethics that replaces the natural law ethics. The theoretical reflections of the book are carried out by the practical social-ethical studies: The politicization of individual human rights is examined in the contexts of migration, religious freedom, and criminal justice. Human dignity is spelled out as "vulnerable agency" allowing for a sharp criticism of Catholic sexual morality and neglect of women's human rights.The book ends with a discussion of the relationship of political theology and political ethics and its social-ethical implications for the further development of a Critical Political Ethics." --provided by publisher
Contents: Part one. Human dignity and human rights --Chapter 1: No space. Nowhere. Refugees and the problem of human rights in Arendt and Ricoeur -- Chapter 2: The right to religious freedom -- Chapter 3: Restoring human rights and dignity in prison - the case of US mass incarceration -- Chapter 4: The new culture of security and surveillance -- Part two. Women's dignity and women's rights: Catholic sexual ethics and reproductive medicine -- Chapter 5. Vulnerable agency - Human dignity and gendered violence -- Chapter 6: Feminist ethics and Catholic sexual morality -- Chapter 7: Human trafficking and sex work -- Chapter 8: Human dignity and human rights in bioethics -- Chapter 9: Reproductive rights and reproductive technologies -- Part three. Political theology and critical political ethics: theoretical reflections -- Chapter 10: From political theology to critical political ethics -- Chapter 11: Justice in history -- Chapter 12: Responsibility for the past -- Chapter 13: Towards a critical political ethics: Compassion, solidarity, and liberation towards justice.