Hugo Grotius And The Modern Theology Of Freedom: Transcending Natural Rights Hardcover

India

Jeremy Seth Geddert

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.

1138695947

9781138695948

English

Taylor & Francis Ltd

01 Mar 2017

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.

Jeremy Seth Geddert brings Grotius down from the shelf of dusty old international law books, and presents to us a thinker who is at once innovative and bold, and yet has deep roots in the venerable tradition of political thought. Geddert's Grotius challenges many of the assumptions embedded in our political vernacular-the language of rights-and compels us to reconsider our fundamental ideas about matters of enduring moral concern involving war and peace, constitutionalism, and criminal law.' - Lee Ward, Alpha Sigma Nu Distinguished Associate Professor of Political Science, Campion College at the University of Regina