Human Rights and Moral Reasoning

A Comparative Investigation by Way of Three Theorists and Their Respective Traditions of Enquiry: John Finnis, Ronald Dworkin and Jürgen Habermas

• Author(s): Michael Shortall,
• Publisher: Editrice Pontificia Università Gregoriana
• Pages: 434
• ISBN_10: 887839145X
  ISBN_13: 9788878391451
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Religion / Christianity / Catholic , Religion / Christian Theology / General ,

Description:... This study is a response to the observation of the critical importance of human rights in the ethical discourse of the public sphere. Yet despite the broad consensus there exists a plurality of approaches to their exposition and justification; each bound to a particular way of moral theology requires that such models be taken seriously. To this end it presents a comparative investifgation of three theorists, each rappresentative of a different tradition of enquiry...