Jeremy Seth Geddert

Hugo Grotius and the Modern Theology of Freedom (eBook, ePUB)

Transcending Natural Rights

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Human rights are thought to guarantee pluralism by protecting individual liberty from imposed religious conceptions of virtue. Yet critics often argue that this secular focus on merely avoiding violations can also enable unfettered individualism and undermine appeals to the common good.

This book uncovers in secular rights pioneer Hugo Grotius a rights theory that points toward the enlargement of individual responsibility. It grounds this connection in Grotius' unexplored theological corpus, which reveals a dual metaethics and jurisprudence. Here a deontological natural law undergirds a secular theory of rights that is self-aware of its own limitations. A teleological practical reason then guides the exercise of these rights, so as not to compromise the political order that defends them. The book then illustrates this symbiosis of rights and responsibilities in five areas: consent theories of government, rights of rebellion, criminal punishment, war and international responsibility, and Atonement theology. This reassesses Grotius' legacy as a secularist opponent of classical political thought, and suggests that modern liberalism and universal human rights are compatible with a world of resurgent religion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315525792
• Artikelnr.: 47903223

Autorenporträt

Jeremy Seth Geddert is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Assumption College. He has published on natural rights, early modern political thought, religion and politics, and the just war tradition.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Grotius and Modern Natural Rights: Beyond A Secular History 2. Natural
Right and Natural Rights 3. Two Concepts of Justice 4. The Origins of the
State: How and Why? 5. The Bounds of Coercive Authority: Sovereignty and
Rebellion 6. Rights and the Responsibility (Not) to Punish 7. Punitive War
and International Responsibility 8. Divine Government: Why You Can't Ever
Really Pay For Your Crimes 9. Transcending Natural Rights, or Rethinking
the Foundations of Modern Political Secularism