The limits of ethics in international relations
Subtitle: natural law, natural rights, and human rights in transition
By: David Boucher.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9780199203529
Subjects: International relations -- Moral and ethical aspects; Human rights; Natural law
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Classical natural law and the law of nations: the Greeks and the Romans; title: Christian natural law: a universal morality; title: Natural law, the law of nations, and the transition to natural rights; title: Natural rights and social exclusion: cultural encounters; title: Natural rights: descriptive and prescriptive; title: Natural rights and their critics; title: Slavery and racism in natural law and natural rights; title: Nonsense upon stilts? Tocqueville, idealism, and the expansion of the moral community; title: The human rights culture and its discontents; title: Modern constitutive theories of human rights; title: Human rights and the judicial revolution; title: Women and human rights.