Geddert Hugo Grotius and the Modern Theology of Freedom

Transcending Natural Rights
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-315-52579-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 250 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Geddert, Jeremy Seth

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Grotius and Modern Natural Rights: Beyond A Secular History

Chapter 2: Natural Right and Natural Rights

Chapter 3: Two Concepts of Justice

Chapter 4: The Origins of the State: How and Why?

Chapter 5: The Bounds of Coercive Authority: Sovereignty and Rebellion

Chapter 6: Rights and the Responsibility (Not) to Punish

Chapter 7: Punitive War and International Responsibility

Chapter 8: Divine Government: Why You Can’t Ever Really Pay For Your Crimes

Chapter 9: Transcending Natural Rights, or Rethinking the Foundations of Modern

Political Secularism

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.