Wolterstorff Justice

Rights and Wrongs
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2871-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten

Nicholas Wolterstorff is the Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology at Yale University and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His many books include Until Justice and Peace Embrace.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wolterstorff, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Ethik, Moraltheologie, Sozialethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Nicholas Wolterstorff is the Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology at Yale University and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His many books include Until Justice and Peace Embrace.