Rights and Wrongs
Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 576 g
ISBN: 978-0-691-14630-0
Verlag: Princeton University Press
Wide-ranging and ambitious, Justice combines moral philosophy and Christian ethics to develop an important theory of rights and of justice as grounded in rights. Nicholas Wolterstorff discusses what it is to have a right, and he locates rights in the respect due the worth of the rights-holder. After contending that socially-conferred rights require the existence of natural rights, he argues that no secular account of natural human rights is successful; he offers instead a theistic account. Wolterstorff prefaces his systematic account of justice as grounded in rights with an exploration of the common claim that rights-talk is inherently individualistic and possessive. He demonstrates that the idea of natural rights originated neither in the Enlightenment nor in the individualistic philosophy of the late Middle Ages, but was already employed by the canon lawyers of the twelfth century. He traces our intuitions about rights and justice back even further, to Hebrew and Christian scriptures. After extensively discussing justice in the Old Testament and the New, he goes on to show why ancient Greek and Roman philosophy could not serve as a framework for a theory of rights. Connecting rights and wrongs to God's relationship with humankind, Justice not only offers a rich and compelling philosophical account of justice, but also makes an important contribution to overcoming the present-day divide between religious discourse and human rights.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Ethik, Moraltheologie, Sozialethik
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsethik, Weltethos
- Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
- Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
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Preface vii
Introduction 1
PART I The Archeology of Rights 19
CHAPTER ONE: Two Conceptions of Justice 21
CHAPTER TWO: A Contest of Narratives 44
CHAPTER THREE: Justice in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible 65
CHAPTER FOUR: On De-justicizing the New Testament 96
CHAPTER FIVE: Justice in the New Testament Gospels 109
PART II Fusion of Narrative with Theory: The Goods to Which We Have Rights 133
CHAPTER SIX: Locating That to Which We Have Rights 135
CHAPTER SEVEN: Why Eudaimonism Cannot Serve as Framework for a Theory of Rights 149
CHAPTER EIGHT: Augustine's Break with Eudaimonism 180
CHAPTER NINE: The Incursion of the Moral Vision of Scripture into Late Antiquity 207
CHAPTER TEN: Characterizing Life- and History-Goods 227
PART III Theory: Having a Right to a Good 239
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Accounting for Rights 241
CHAPTER TWELVE: Rights Not Grounded in Duties 264
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Rights Grounded in Respect for Worth 285
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The Nature and Grounding of Natural Human Rights 311
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Is a Secular Grounding of Human Rights Possible? 323
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: A Theistic Grounding of Human Rights 342
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Applications and Implications 362
EPILOGUE: Concluding Reflections 385
General Index 395
Index of Scriptural References 399
