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| Contents |
Part One: 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 -- Part Two: Fusion of Narrative with Theory: The Goods to Which We Have Rights -- Locating That to Which We Have Rights -- Why Eudaimonism Will Not Work as a Framework for a Theory of Rights -- Augustine's Break with Eudaemonism -- The Incursion of the Moral Vision of Scripture into Late Antiquity -- Characterizing the Life-Goods Constitutive of Flourishing -- Part Three: Theory: Having a Right to a Good -- Accounting for Rights -- Rights Not Grounded in Duties -- The Nature and Grounding of Natural Human Rights -- Is a Secular Grounding of Human Rights Possible? -- A Theological Grounding of Human Rights -- Beyond the Rights of Persons and Human Beings -- Epilogue Concluding Reflections. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| LCCN | 2007019574 |
| ISBN | 9780691129679 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0691129673 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
