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The Limits of Ethics in International Relations - Natural Law, Natural Rights, and Human Rights in Transition (Paperback)
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The Limits of Ethics in International Relations - Natural Law, Natural Rights, and Human Rights in Transition (Paperback)
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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 major new book David Boucher rejects
the view that Natural Rights constituted a secularization of
Natural Law ideas by showing that most of the significant thinkers
in the field, in their various ways, believed that reason leads you
to the discovery of your obligations, while God provides the ground
for discharging them. Furthermore, The Limits of Ethics in
International Relations maintains that Natural Rights and Human
Rights are far less closely related than is often asserted because
Natural Rights never cast adrift the religious foundationalism,
whereas Human Rights, for the most part, have jettisoned the
Christian metaphysics upon which both Natural Law and Natural
Rights depended. Human Rights theories, on the whole, present us
with foundationless universal constraints on the actions of
individuals, both domestically and internationally. Finally, one of
the principal contentions of the book is that these purportedly
universal rights and duties almost invariably turn out to be
conditional, and upon close scrutiny end up being 'special' rights
and privileges as the examples of multicultural encounters, slavery
and racism, and women's rights demonstrate.
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