The Limits of Ethics in International Relations
Natural Law, Natural Rights, and Human Rights in Transition
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 5 May 2011
- ISBN 9780199691463
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages432 pages
- Size 234x169x24 mm
- Weight 652 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
In his major new work, David Boucher surveys the history of thinking about human rights and shows that far from being seen as universal and emancipatory, they have almost always privileged certain groups in relation to others.
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Ethical constraints on relations among individuals within and between societies have always reflected or invoked a higher authority than the caprices of human will. For over two thousand years natural law and natural rights were the constellations of ideas and presuppositions that fulfilled this role in the West, and exhibited far greater similarities than most commentators want to admit. Such ideas were the lens through which Europeans evaluated the rest of the world. In his major new book David Boucher rejects the view that natural rights constituted a secularization of natural law ideas by showing that most of the significant thinkers in the field, in their various ways, believed that reason leads you to the discovery of your obligations, while God provides the ground for discharging them. Furthermore, the book maintains that natural rights and human rights are far less closely related than is often asserted because natural rights can never be cast adrift from their religious foundations, whereas human rights, for the most part, have jettisoned the Christian metaphysics upon which both natural law and natural rights depended. Human rights theories, on the whole, present us with foundationless universal constraints on the actions of individuals, both domestically and internationally. Finally, one of the principal contentions of the book is that these purportedly universal rights and duties almost invariably turn out to be conditional, and upon close scrutiny end up being 'special' rights and privileges as the examples of multicultural encounters, slavery, racism, and women's rights demonstrate.
David Boucher's The Limits of Ethics in International Relations is the result of eleven years hard work. It shows a degree of ambition that is unfortunately rare in the current REF-driven environment, in terms of the period that it covers (from the Ancient Greeks to the present), the length of the book and the level of scholarship. The result is a deeply impressive achievement, containing a wealth of original and nuanced interpretation, especially in the chapters on modern political thought. The Limits of Ethics in International Relations is a remarkable book that develops an ambitious, intelligent, well-informed and original argument on a topic of fundamental contemporary importance.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Classical Natural Law and the Law of Nations: The Greeks and The Romans
Christian Natural Law
Natural Law, The Law of Nations and the Transition to Natural Rights
Natural Rights and Social Exclusion: Cultural Encounters
Natural Rights: Descriptive and Prescriptive
Natural Rights and Their Critics
Slavery and Racism in Natural Law and Natural Rights
Nonsense Upon Stilts? Tocqueville, Idealism and the Expansion of the Moral Community
The Human Rights Culture and its Discontents
Modern Constitutive Theories of Human Rights
Human Rights and the Juridical Revolutions
Women and Human Rights
Conclusion
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