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Justice : Rights and Wrongs / Nicholas Wolterstorff.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2008Edition: Core TextbookDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9780691146300
  • 9781400828715
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- 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 -- EPILOGUE. Concluding Reflections -- General Index -- Index of Scriptural References
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- 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 -- EPILOGUE. Concluding Reflections -- General Index -- Index of Scriptural References

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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