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The Cambridge Handbook of Natural Law and Human Rights, EPUB eBook

The Cambridge Handbook of Natural Law and Human Rights EPUB

Edited by Tom Angier, Iain T. Benson, Mark D. Retter

Part of the Cambridge Law Handbooks series

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This Handbook provides an intellectually rigorous and accessible overview of the relationship between natural law and human rights.

It fills a crucial gap in the literature with leading scholarship on the importance of natural law as a philosophical foundation for human rights and its significance for contemporary debates.

The themes covered include: the role of natural law thought in the history of human rights; human rights scepticism; the different notions of 'subjective right'; the various foundations for human rights within natural law ethics; the relationship between natural law and human rights in religious traditions; the idea of human dignity; the relation between human rights, political community and law; human rights interpretation; and tensions between human rights law and natural law ethics.

This Handbook is an ideal introduction to natural law perspectives on human rights, while also offering a concise summary of scholarly developments in the field.

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