Rights and Christian ethics
Kieran Cronin aims in this book to show how a Christian perspective may have something fruitful to contribute to the language of rights. In so doing, he examines some of the complexities involved in using this language, drawing from literature in moral philosophy and jurisprudence in the process. Th...
| Subtitles: | Rights & Christian Ethics |
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
1992.
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| In: | Year: 1992 |
| Reviews: | Rights and Christian Ethics. Kieran Cronin (1995) (Gunnemann, Jon P.)
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| Series/Journal: | New studies in Christian ethics
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Human rights
/ Christian ethics
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| Further subjects: | B
Human Rights
B Christian Ethics |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
Print version: 9780521418898 |
| Summary: | Kieran Cronin aims in this book to show how a Christian perspective may have something fruitful to contribute to the language of rights. In so doing, he examines some of the complexities involved in using this language, drawing from literature in moral philosophy and jurisprudence in the process. The novelty of his approach lies in the attempt to distinguish two complementary aspects within metaethics, aspects which the author calls the 'discursive' and the 'imaginative'. Cronin regards the use of models (which are extended metaphors) as providing a bridge between these two aspects, and the imaginative metaethics which emerges is seen to be rich in possibilities for both secular and Christian understandings of rights-talk. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
| ISBN: | 0511557469 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511557460 |