Boucher, David, 1951-

The limits of ethics in international relations natural law, natural rights, and human rights in transition / [electronic resource] : David Boucher. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009. - vii, 421 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


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International relations--Moral and ethical aspects.
Human rights.
Natural law.


Electronic books.

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