Justice Rights and Wrongs

Name: Justice Rights and Wrongs
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ISBN: 9780691146300

ISBN-10: 0691146306

ISBN-13: 9780691146300

Edition: 2008

Authors: Nicholas Wolterstorff

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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 5/7/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 7.13" wide x 9.13" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



The Archeology of Rights



Two Conceptions of Justice



A Contest of Narratives



Justice in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible



On De-justicizing the New Testament



Justice in the New Testament Gospels



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



Locating That to Which We Have Rights



Why Eudaimonism Cannot Serve as Framework for a Theory of Rights



Augustine's Break with Eudaimonism



The Incursion of the Moral Vision of Scripture into Late Antiquity



Characterizing Life-and History-Goods



Theory: Having a Right to a Good



Accounting for Rights



Rights Not Grounded in Duties



Rights Grounded in Respect for Worth



The Nature and Grounding of Natural Human Rights



Is a Secular Grounding of Human Rights Possible?



A Theistic Grounding of Human Rights



Applications and Implications


Epilogue Concluding Reflections


General Index


Index of Scriptural References