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Human rights are thought to guarantee pluralism by protecting
individual liberty from imposed religious conceptions of virtue.
Yet critics often argue that this secular focus on merely avoiding
violations can also enable unfettered individualism and undermine
appeals to the common good. This book uncovers in secular rights
pioneer Hugo Grotius a rights theory that points toward the
enlargement of individual responsibility. It grounds this
connection in Grotius' unexplored theological corpus, which reveals
a dual metaethics and jurisprudence. Here a deontological natural
law undergirds a secular theory of rights that is self-aware of its
own limitations. A teleological practical reason then guides the
exercise of these rights, so as not to compromise the political
order that defends them. The book then illustrates this symbiosis
of rights and responsibilities in five areas: consent theories of
government, rights of rebellion, criminal punishment, war and
international responsibility, and Atonement theology. This
reassesses Grotius' legacy as a secularist opponent of classical
political thought, and suggests that modern liberalism and
universal human rights are compatible with a world of resurgent
religion.
Human rights are thought to guarantee pluralism by protecting
individual liberty from imposed religious conceptions of virtue.
Yet critics often argue that this secular focus on merely avoiding
violations can also enable unfettered individualism and undermine
appeals to the common good. This book uncovers in secular rights
pioneer Hugo Grotius a rights theory that points toward the
enlargement of individual responsibility. It grounds this
connection in Grotius' unexplored theological corpus, which reveals
a dual metaethics and jurisprudence. Here a deontological natural
law undergirds a secular theory of rights that is self-aware of its
own limitations. A teleological practical reason then guides the
exercise of these rights, so as not to compromise the political
order that defends them. The book then illustrates this symbiosis
of rights and responsibilities in five areas: consent theories of
government, rights of rebellion, criminal punishment, war and
international responsibility, and Atonement theology. This
reassesses Grotius' legacy as a secularist opponent of classical
political thought, and suggests that modern liberalism and
universal human rights are compatible with a world of resurgent
religion.
If natural law arguments struggle to gain traction in contemporary
moral and political discourse, could it be because we moderns do
not share the understanding of nature on which that language was
developed? Building on the work of important thinkers of the last
half-century, including Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, John Finnis,
and Bernard Lonergan, the essays in Concepts of Nature compare and
contrast classical, medieval, and modern conceptions of nature in
order to better understand how and why the concept of nature no
longer seems to provide a limit or standard for human action. These
essays also evaluate whether a rearticulation of pre-modern ideas
(or perhaps a reconciliation or reconstitution on modern terms) is
desirable and/or possible. Edited by R. J. Snell and Steven F.
McGuire, this book will be of interest to intellectual historians,
political theorists, theologians, and philosophers.
If natural law arguments struggle to gain traction in contemporary
moral and political discourse, could it be because we moderns do
not share the understanding of nature on which that language was
developed? Building on the work of important thinkers of the last
half-century, including Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, John Finnis,
and Bernard Lonergan, the essays in Concepts of Nature compare and
contrast classical, medieval, and modern conceptions of nature in
order to better understand how and why the concept of nature no
longer seems to provide a limit or standard for human action. These
essays also evaluate whether a rearticulation of pre-modern ideas
(or perhaps a reconciliation or reconstitution on modern terms) is
desirable and/or possible. Edited by R. J. Snell and Steven F.
McGuire, this book will be of interest to intellectual historians,
political theorists, theologians, and philosophers.
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