Respect for and promotion of human rights have come to be seen as
the basis of legitimacy of modern Western civilization. There is
nevertheless a striking contrast between our common view on the
importance of rights and our profound disagreement on their meaning
and content. This disagreement has become increasingly sharp in the
last decades, due to the emergence of controversial "new rights".
This book offers an in-depth account of the most important moral
debates, exploring the ethical and political foundations underlying
the different understandings of rights. In the first part, the
author focuses on the role played by the ideas of "good" and
"reason" in the Thomistic-Aristotelian and Kantian traditions; and
he compares those concepts with the main currents of contemporary
liberalism, which, among other things, focus on our emancipation
from the limits of nature. The book attempts to show the
dehumanizing effects of denying the relevance of integral human
good in defining the scope of human rights and liberties, and
offers an alternative way forward for our understanding of human
rights in a pluralistic society.
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