LEADER 03154nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910465157603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-26845-7 010 $a0-19-154797-2 010 $a9786612268458 035 $a(CKB)2560000000298901 035 $a(EBL)472065 035 $a(OCoLC)435942169 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000192508 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11167605 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000192508 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10204579 035 $a(PQKB)10144016 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000021991 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC472065 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL472065 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10329639 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL226845 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000298901 100 $a20090415d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe limits of ethics in international relations$b[electronic resource] $enatural law, natural rights, and human rights in transition /$fDavid Boucher 210 $aOxford $cOxford University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (432 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-920352-0 311 $a0-19-169549-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aClassical 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. 330 $aEthical 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 s 606 $aInternational relations$xMoral and ethical aspects 606 $aHuman rights 606 $aNatural law 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aInternational relations$xMoral and ethical aspects. 615 0$aHuman rights. 615 0$aNatural law. 676 $a172.4 700 $aBoucher$b David$f1951-$0127726 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465157603321 996 $aThe limits of ethics in international relations$92011596 997 $aUNINA