03154nam 2200625 a 450 991046515760332120200520144314.01-282-26845-70-19-154797-29786612268458(CKB)2560000000298901(EBL)472065(OCoLC)435942169(SSID)ssj0000192508(PQKBManifestationID)11167605(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000192508(PQKBWorkID)10204579(PQKB)10144016(StDuBDS)EDZ0000021991(MiAaPQ)EBC472065(Au-PeEL)EBL472065(CaPaEBR)ebr10329639(CaONFJC)MIL226845(EXLCZ)99256000000029890120090415d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe limits of ethics in international relations[electronic resource] natural law, natural rights, and human rights in transition /David BoucherOxford Oxford University Press20091 online resource (432 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-920352-0 0-19-169549-1 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.Ethical constraints on relations among individuals within and between societies have always reflected or invoked a higher authority than the caprices of human will. For over two thousand years Natural Law and Natural Rights were the constellations of ideas and presuppositions that fulfilled this role in the west, and exhibited far greater similarities than most commentators want to admit. Such ideas were the lens through which Europeans evaluated the rest of the world. In his majornew book David Boucher rejects the view that Natural Rights constituted a secularisation of Natural Law ideas by sInternational relationsMoral and ethical aspectsHuman rightsNatural lawElectronic books.International relationsMoral and ethical aspects.Human rights.Natural law.172.4Boucher David1951-127726MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465157603321The limits of ethics in international relations2011596UNINA