02712nam 2200649Ia 450 991081136000332120230721025707.01-281-36350-297866113635050-230-60497-810.1057/9780230604971(CKB)1000000000342455(EBL)308358(OCoLC)314795173(SSID)ssj0000285029(PQKBManifestationID)11209870(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000285029(PQKBWorkID)10277612(PQKB)11670027(DE-He213)978-0-230-60497-1(MiAaPQ)EBC308358(Au-PeEL)EBL308358(CaPaEBR)ebr10194143(CaONFJC)MIL136350(OCoLC)519343409(EXLCZ)99100000000034245520061207d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTruth, politics, and universal human rights /Janet Holl Madigan1st ed.New York Palgrave Macmillan20071 online resource (257 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-349-53693-8 1-4039-7623-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-223) and index.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Universal Human Rights and the Impoverishment of Moral Discourse; Part II: Soul Keeping and State Building: Principles and Politics from Plato to Machiavelli; Part III: The Decline of Truth and the Rise of Rights in the Thought of Grotius and Locke; Part IV: Being and Goodness: The Alpha and Omega of Human Rights; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; IndexThis book uses the concept of universal human rights to explore the relationship between the individual, society, and truth. To answer the question of how we say something universally true about human beings while lacking the philosophical means to do so, the author explores the changing relationship between truth and politics from Plato to Locke.Human rightsReligious aspectsCatholic ChurchAbortionReligious aspectsCatholic ChurchHuman rightsReligious aspectsCatholic Church.AbortionReligious aspectsCatholic Church.172323Madigan Janet Holl1616319Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811360003321Truth, politics, and universal human rights3946970UNINA