Authors: Thomas D. Williams
ISBN-13: 9780813213910, ISBN-10: 0813213916
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Date Published: March 2005
Edition: New Edition
Who Is My Neighbor? makes an original, compelling case for human rights as moral entitlements grounded in the dignity of the human person. Drawing upon insights of Thomistic Personalism, Thomas D. Williams sets forth in clear, vigorous prose the anthropological, philosophical, and theological bases for asserting that the human person must always be loved as an end and never used as a mere means.
Foreword | ||
1 | Defining human rights | 3 |
2 | Some needed nuances | 14 |
3 | The church and human rights | 31 |
4 | The accusation of nonexistence | 53 |
5 | The accusation of inseparability | 65 |
6 | The accusation of innovation | 82 |
7 | A personalism primer | 108 |
8 | The person according to personalism | 125 |
9 | Dignity and its due | 146 |
10 | The two loves | 165 |
11 | From love to human rights | 182 |
12 | Christ and human dignity | 204 |
13 | Natural law | 219 |
14 | Natural justice | 256 |
15 | Natural rights in classical theory | 283 |
16 | Who is my neighbor? | 302 |