Table of Contents
Foreword by Mary Ann Glendon 1
Introduction 9
PART ONE: RIGHTS ON THE ROCKS 16
Chapter One: The Church and Human Rights 17
Chapter Two: The Dilemma of defining Human Rights 43
Chapter Three: Some Needed Nuances 62
PART TWO: THE CASE AGAINST RIGHTS 90
Chapter Four: The Accusation of Incoherence 91
Chapter Five: The Accusation of Inseparability 116
Chapter Six: The Accusation of Innovation 142
PART THREE: A NEW SOLUTION TO AN OLD PROBLEM: THOMISTIC PERSONALISM
Chapter Seven: A Personalist Primer 180
Chapter Eight: The Person According to Personalism 210
Chapter Nine: Dignity and its Due 245
Chapter Ten: The Two Loves 277
Chapter Eleven: From Love to Human Rights 305
Chapter Twelve: Christ and Human Dignity 341
PART FOUR: HUMAN RIGHTS AND CLASSICAL ETHICS 365
Chapter Thirteen: Natural Law: Ethics Accessible to Reason 366
Chapter Fourteen: Natural Justice: To Each his Due 432
Chapter Fifteen: Natural Rights in Classical Theory 477
Chapter Sixteen: Towards an Ethics of Solidarity 507
Select Bibliography 538
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Human rights Religious aspects Catholic Church, Natural law Religious aspects Catholic Church, Neo-Scholasticism, Personalism