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1 online resource (316 pages) |
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Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter Outline -- 1 Catholic Cosmopolitanism and the Birth of Human Rights -- 1.1 Some Historical Origins of Catholic Social Thought -- 1.1.1 From Whom Are We to Seek a Judgement on this Great Question? From Whom? From Mankind -- 1.1.2 'The Error of the Century' -- 1.1.3 The Spirit of Revolutionary Change, which Has Long Been Disturbing the Nations -- 1.2 Cosmopolitan Foundations -- 1.2.1 'Mandatory for the Whole Church' -- 1.2.2 A Kind of Subjective Power |
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1.2.3 The Radical Freedom that Is Ours at Each Moment -- 1.2.4 The Final Product of a Developing Tradition of Thought -- 1.3 An Independent Ethical Category -- 1.3.1 Transcending Individuality -- 1.4 A Fateful Step for Post-War Intellectual History -- 1.5 Conclusion -- 2 Catholic Cosmopolitanism from the Centre to the Periphery -- 2.1 'Two Swords There Are, August Emperor' -- 2.1.1 'We Have Learnt that There Is a City of God: And We Have Longed to Become Citizens of that City' -- 2.1.2 Every City Is a Community of Some Kind -- 2.1.3 'The Court over the Whole of Christendom' |
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2.1.4 'The Whole World, Which Is in a Sense a Commonwealth' -- 2.1.5 'This Title against the Barbarians Is Also Invalid' -- 2.1.6 'Dominium Is Not Founded in Grace or Faith, but in Free Will and Reason' -- 2.2 Classical Jurists, Roman Civil Law, Ancient Philosophers -- 2.2.1 Where Only Beasts and Heroes Could Exist -- 2.2.2 '[N]ull, void, invalid, iniquitous, unjust, damnable, reprobate, inane' -- 2.3 Conclusion -- 3 Catholic Cosmopolitanism from the Periphery to International Concern -- 3.1 The 'Standard of Civilisation' -- 3.1.1 Religion in the Political Raison d'État of Western States |
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3.1.2 'The General Happiness of Mankind' -- 3.1.3 'A Long Established Technical Vocabulary' -- 3.2 A 'Plan of Action' -- 3.2.1 'More Pope More Sovereignty, More Sovereignty More Unity' -- 3.2.2 A Revolt against the Gods of the Roman Empire -- 3.3 'The Pope! How Many Divisions Has He?' -- 3.3.1 Legitimate Participants of the Modern Diplomatic System -- 3.3.2 Not as Privileges, but as Bilateral Treaties -- 3.3.3 A True Brotherly Society of Nations -- 3.4 To Find or to Create a Law which Is Higher than the Law of the State -- 3.5 Conclusion -- 4 Locating a Modern Christian Cosmopolitanism |
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4.1 A Prisca Theologia or Primitive Anticipation of Christianity -- 4.1.1 A Philosophia Perennis -- 4.1.2 The Juridical Concept of Human Dignity -- 4.2 Maritain's 'Democratic Secular Faith' -- 4.2.1 UNESCO Document and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- 4.2.2 A New Religiously Pluralistic Ideal of Church-State Relations -- 4.3 Conclusion -- 5 An Imperfect Cosmopolitan Project -- 5.1 Irish Constitutionalism and Human Dignity -- 5.1.1 Context of the Irish Constitution -- 5.1.2 Constitutional Dignity, a Cosmopolitan Impulse -- 5.1.3 A Peripheral Laboratory of Civil Society Catholicism |
| Summary |
Provides a more complete account of the human rights project that factors in the contribution of cosmopolitan Catholicism |
| Notes |
5.1.4 Two Methodologies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Human rights -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
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Christianity and international relations -- Catholic Church.
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International law and human rights.
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Christianity and international relations -- Catholic Church
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Human rights -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
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International law and human rights
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1108786111 |
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9781108786119 |
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9781108626446 |
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1108626440 |
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