著者・編者Pierre Manent ; translated by Ralph C. Hancock ; foreword by Daniel J. Mahoney
並列タイトル等La loi naturelle et les droits de l'homme
一般注記Includes index
Summary: "Pierre Manent is one of France's leading political philosophers. This first English translation of his profound and strikingly original book La loi naturelle et les droits de l'homme is a reflection on the central question of the Western political tradition. In six chapters, developed from the prestigious Étienne Gilson lectures at the Institut Catholique de Paris, and in a related appendix, Manent contemplates the steady displacement of the natural law by the modern conception of human rights. He aims to restore the grammar of moral and political action, and thus the possibility of an authentically political order that is fully compatible with liberty rightly understood. Manent boldly confronts the prejudices and dogmas of those who have repudiated the classical and (especially) Christian notion of "liberty under law" and in the process shows how groundless many contemporary appeals to human rights turn out to be. Manent denies that we can generate obligations from a condition of what Locke..."
"This first English translation of his profound and strikingly original book La loi naturelle et les droits de l'homme is a ..." -- On backcover
関連情報Catholic ideas for a secular world
掲載誌Catholic ideas for a secular world
連携機関・データベース国立情報学研究所 : CiNii Research
NACSIS書誌ID（NCID）https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BC07057139 : BC07057139