Boucher, David

The Limits of Ethics in International Relations: Natural Law, Natural Rights, and Human Rights in Transition - Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. - vii, 421p

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.

9780199203529


International Relations -- Moral and Ethical Aspects -- Human Rights

172.4 / BOU/L