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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780766903321

Autore

Williams Thomas D., LC.

Titolo

Who is my neighbor? [[electronic resource] ] : personalism and the foundations of human rights / / Thomas D. Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Catholic University of America Press, c2005

ISBN

0-8132-1666-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (359 p.)

Disciplina

172/.2

Soggetti

Natural law - Religious aspects - Catholic Church

Human rights - Religious aspects - Catholic Church

Neo-Scholasticism

Personalism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-334) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part one: Rights in the crosshairs -- Defining human rights -- Some needed nuances -- The church and human rights -- Part two: The case against rights -- The accusation of nonexistence -- The accusation of inseparability -- The accusation of innovation -- Part three: A new solution to an old problem : thomistic personalism -- A personalism primer -- The person according to personalism -- Dignity and its due -- The two loves -- From love to human rights -- Christ and human dignity -- Part four: Human rights and classical ethics -- Natural law -- Natural justice -- Natural rights in classical theory -- Part five: Towards an ethics of solidarity -- Who is my neighbor?