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Who is my neighbor? [electronic resource] : personalism and the foundations of human rights / Thomas D. Williams.

By: Williams, Thomas D., LC.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2005Description: xvi, 342 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Natural law -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church | Human rights -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church | Neo-Scholasticism | PersonalismGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 172/.2 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Part one: Rights in the crosshairs -- Defining human rights -- Some needed nuances -- The church and human rights -- Part two: The case against rights -- The accusation of nonexistence -- The accusation of inseparability -- The accusation of innovation -- Part three: A new solution to an old problem : thomistic personalism -- A personalism primer -- The person according to personalism -- Dignity and its due -- The two loves -- From love to human rights -- Christ and human dignity -- Part four: Human rights and classical ethics -- Natural law -- Natural justice -- Natural rights in classical theory -- Part five: Towards an ethics of solidarity -- Who is my neighbor?

Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-334) and index.

Part one: Rights in the crosshairs -- Defining human rights -- Some needed nuances -- The church and human rights -- Part two: The case against rights -- The accusation of nonexistence -- The accusation of inseparability -- The accusation of innovation -- Part three: A new solution to an old problem : thomistic personalism -- A personalism primer -- The person according to personalism -- Dignity and its due -- The two loves -- From love to human rights -- Christ and human dignity -- Part four: Human rights and classical ethics -- Natural law -- Natural justice -- Natural rights in classical theory -- Part five: Towards an ethics of solidarity -- Who is my neighbor?

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