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ISBN 10: 0691146306

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Author: Nicholas Wolterstorff

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.

Justice Rights and Wrongs 1st Table of contents:

PART I: The Archeology of Rights

CHAPTER ONE Two Conceptions of Justice

CHAPTER TWO A Contest of Narratives

CHAPTER THREE Justice in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible

CHAPTER FOUR On De-justicizing the New Testament

CHAPTER FIVE Justice in the New Testament Gospels

PART II: Fusion of Narrative with Theory: The Goods to Which We Have Rights

CHAPTER SIX Locating That to Which We Have Rights

CHAPTER SEVEN Why Eudaimonism Cannot Serve as Framework for a Theory of Rights

CHAPTER EIGHT Augustine’s Break with Eudaimonism

CHAPTER NINE The Incursion of the Moral Vision of Scripture into Late Antiquity

CHAPTER TEN Characterizing Life- and History-Goods

PART III: Theory: Having a Right to a Good

CHAPTER ELEVEN Accounting for Rights

CHAPTER TWELVE Rights Not Grounded in Duties

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Rights Grounded in Respect for Worth

CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Nature and Grounding of Natural Human Rights

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Is a Secular Grounding of Human Rights Possible?

CHAPTER SIXTEEN A Theistic Grounding of Human Rights

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Applications and Implications

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