Christianity And Democracy The Rights Of Man And Natural Law
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Christianity And Democracy The Rights Of Man And Natural Law
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Author : Jacques Maritain
language : en
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Release Date : 2012-01-01
Christianity And Democracy The Rights Of Man And Natural Law written by Jacques Maritain and has been published by Ignatius Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Religion categories.
Few political philosophers have laid such stress upon the organic and dynamic characters of human rights, rooted as they are in natural law, as did the great 20th century philosopher, Jacques Maritain. Few Christian scholars have placed such emphasis upon the influence of evangelical inspiration, or of the Gospel message, upon the temporal order as has Maritain.As this important work reveals, the philosophy of Jacques Maritain on natural law and human rights is complemented by and can only be properly understood in the light of his teaching on Christianity and democracy and their relationship. Maritain takes pains to point out that Christianity cannot be made subservient to any political form or regime, that democracy is linked to Christianity and not the other way around, and that every just regime, such as the classic forms of monarchy, aristocracy and republic, is compatible with Christianity and in it a person is able to achieve some measure of fulfillment even in the temporal order.At the same time he argues his distinctive thesis that personalist or organic democracy provides a fuller measure of freedom and fulfillment and that it emerges or begins to take shape under the inspiration of the Gospel. Even the modern democracies we do in fact have, with all their weaknesses, represent an historic gain for the person and they spring, he urges, from the very Gospel they so wantonly repudiate!
The Rights Of Man And Natural Law
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Author : Jacques Maritain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
The Rights Of Man And Natural Law written by Jacques Maritain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Law categories.
Christianity And Democracy And The Rights Of Man And Natural Law
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Author : Jacques Maritain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986-01-01
Christianity And Democracy And The Rights Of Man And Natural Law written by Jacques Maritain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-01-01 with Religion categories.
Christianity And Human Rights
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Author : John Witte, Jr
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-12-23
Christianity And Human Rights written by John Witte, Jr and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-23 with Religion categories.
Combining Jewish, Greek, and Roman teachings with the radical new teachings of Christ and St. Paul, Christianity helped to cultivate the cardinal ideas of dignity, equality, liberty and democracy that ground the modern human rights paradigm. Christianity also helped shape the law of public, private, penal, and procedural rights that anchor modern legal systems in the West and beyond. This collection of essays explores these Christian contributions to human rights through the perspectives of jurisprudence, theology, philosophy and history, and Christian contributions to the special rights claims of women, children, nature and the environment. The authors also address the church's own problems and failings with maintaining human rights ideals. With contributions from leading scholars, including a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, this book provides an authoritative treatment of how Christianity shaped human rights in the past, and how Christianity and human rights continue to challenge each other in modern times.
Christianity And Democracy
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Author : Jacques Maritain
language : en
Publisher: Ayer Publishing
Release Date : 1972
Christianity And Democracy written by Jacques Maritain and has been published by Ayer Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Religion categories.
Rethinking Rights
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Author : Bruce P. Frohnen
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2008-12-24
Rethinking Rights written by Bruce P. Frohnen and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-24 with Political Science categories.
As reports of genocide, terrorism, and political violence fill today’s newscasts, more attention has been given to issues of human rights—but all too often the sound bites seem overly simplistic. Many Westerners presume that non-Western peoples yearn for democratic rights, while liberal values of toleration give way to xenophobia. This book shows that the identification of rights with contemporary liberal democracy is inaccurate and questions the assumptions of many politicians and scholars that rights are self-evident in all circumstances and will overcome any conflicts of thought or interest. Rethinking Rights offers a radical reconsideration of the origins, nature, and role of rights in public life, interweaving perspectives of leading scholars in history, political science, philosophy, and law to emphasize rights as a natural outgrowth of a social understanding of human nature and dignity. The authors argue that every person comes to consciousness in a historical and cultural milieu that must be taken into account in understanding human rights, and they describe the omnipresence of concrete, practical rights in their historical, political, and philosophical contexts. By rooting our understanding of rights in both history and the order of existence, they show that it is possible to understand rights as essential to our lives as social beings but also open to refinement within communities. An initial group of essays retraces the origins and historical development of rights in the West, assessing the influence of such thinkers as Locke, Burke, and the authors of the Declaration of Independence to clarify the experience of rights within the Western tradition. A second group addresses the need to rethink our understanding of the nature of existence if we are to understand rights and their place in any decent life, examining the ontological basis of rights, the influence of custom on rights, the social nature of the human person, and the importance of institutional rights. Steering a middle course between radical individualist and extreme egalitarian views, Rethinking Rights proposes a new philosophy of rights appropriate to today’s world, showing that rights need to be rethought in a manner that brings them back into accord with human nature and experience so that they may again truly serve the human good. By engaging both the history of rights in the West and the multicultural challenge of rights in an international context, Rethinking Rights offers a provocative and coherent new argument to advance the field of rights studies.
Natural Law And Religious Freedom
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Author : J. Daryl Charles
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-20
Natural Law And Religious Freedom written by J. Daryl Charles and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-20 with Religion categories.
Every successive generation finds fresh reasons for the study of natural law. Current interest in the natural law may well be due to a pervasive moral pessimism in the Western cultural context and wider contemporary geopolitical challenges. Those geopolitical challenges result from two significant and worrisome global developments – unprecedented violent persecution of religious minorities on several continents and a growing climate of secular hostility toward religious faith in Western societies. Natural Law and Religious Freedom aims to address what is relatively absent from the literature by demonstrating the importance of natural law ethics in both establishing and preserving basic human rights, of which religious freedom has pride of place. Probing contemporary challenges to natural law thinking that are both internal and external to religious faith, and examining the character and constitution of natural law ethics, Natural Law and Religious Freedom will be of interest to theologians, ethicists and philosophers as well as policy analysts, politicians and activists who are concerned to anchor religious freedom and human rights policy considerations in an enduring way.
The Declaration Of The Rights Of Man And Of Citizens
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Author : Georg Jellinek
language : en
Publisher: e-artnow
Release Date : 2020-05-18
The Declaration Of The Rights Of Man And Of Citizens written by Georg Jellinek and has been published by e-artnow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-18 with Political Science categories.
Georg Jellinek argues in his essay The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen for a universal theory of rights, as opposed to the culturally and nationally specific arguments then in vogue. Jellinek indicates that the French Revolution, which was the focal point of 19th-century political theory, should not be thought of as arising from a purely French tradition (namely the tradition stemming from Jean-Jacques Rousseau) but as a close analogue of revolutionary movements and ideas in England and the United States.
God And The Atlantic
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Author : Thomas Albert Howard
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2011-01-20
God And The Atlantic written by Thomas Albert Howard and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-20 with Religion categories.
Since the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, the United States and Western Europe's paths to modernity have diverged sharply with respect to religion. In short, Americans have maintained much friendlier ties with traditional forms of religion than their European counterparts. What explains this transatlantic religious divide? Accessing the topic though nineteenth and early twentieth-century European commentary on the United States, Thomas Albert Howard argues that an 'Atlantic gap' in religious matters has deep and complex historical roots, and enduringly informs some strands of European disapprobation of the United States. While exploring in the first chapters 'Old World' disquiet toward the young republic's religious dynamics, the book turns in the final chapters and focuses on more constructive European assessments of the United States. Acknowledging the importance of Alexis de Tocqueville for the topic, Howard argues that a widespread overreliance on Tocqueville as interpreter of America has had a tendency to overshadow other noteworthy European voices. Two underappreciated figures here receive due attention: the Protestant Swiss-German church historian, Philip Schaff, and the French Catholic philosopher, Jacques Maritain. While the transatlantic religious divide has received commentary from journalists and sociologists in recent decades, this is the first major work of cultural and intellectual history devoted to the subject.
The Politics Of Enlightenment
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Author : Vincenzo Ferrone
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2012
The Politics Of Enlightenment written by Vincenzo Ferrone and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Business & Economics categories.
Written by one of Italy's leading historians, this book analyses the Neapolitan nobleman Gaetano Filangieri and his seven-volume 'Science of Legislation' in their historical context, expounding on his legacy for the histories of constitutional republicanism, liberalism, and political economy.