Description: Further DetailsTitle: JusticeCondition: NewEAN: 9780691146300ISBN: 9780691146300Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/02/2010Item Height: 235mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 567gAuthor: Nicholas WolterstorffLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Rights and WrongsISBN-10: 0691146306Description: Wide-ranging and ambitious, Justice combines moral philosophy and Christian ethics to develop an important theory of rights and of justice as grounded in rights. Nicholas Wolterstorff discusses what it is to have a right, and he locates rights in the respect due the worth of the rights-holder. After contending that socially-conferred rights require the existence of natural rights, he argues that no secular account of natural human rights is successful; he offers instead a theistic account. Wolterstorff prefaces his systematic account of justice as grounded in rights with an exploration of the common claim that rights-talk is inherently individualistic and possessive. He demonstrates that the idea of natural rights originated neither in the Enlightenment nor in the individualistic philosophy of the late Middle Ages, but was already employed by the canon lawyers of the twelfth century. He traces our intuitions about rights and justice back even further, to Hebrew and Christian scriptures. After extensively discussing justice in the Old Testament and the New, he goes on to show why ancient Greek and Roman philosophy could not serve as a framework for a theory of rights.Connecting rights and wrongs to God's relationship with humankind, Justice not only offers a rich and compelling philosophical account of justice, but also makes an important contribution to overcoming the present-day divide between religious discourse and human rights.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 2010 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Justice
Title: Justice
EAN: 9780691146300
ISBN: 9780691146300
Release Date: 05/02/2010
Release Year: 2010
Subtitle: Rights and Wrongs
ISBN-10: 0691146306
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 416 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Justice : Rights and Wrongs
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: Ethics & Moral Philosophy, General, Christianity / General, Christian Theology / Ethics
Publication Year: 2010
Item Height: 1 in
Item Weight: 20 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Nicholas Wolterstorff
Item Length: 9.1 in
Subject Area: Religion, Philosophy
Item Width: 7.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
