Justifying ethics : human rights & human nature

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Preface = xi
• Introduction The Power of Human Rights = 1
• 1. The Problem of Justification = 17
• 2. Human Nature = 25
• Universal Needs and Wants = 26
• Basic Ethical Inclinations : Universally Accepted Norms = 28
• The Function of Ethics = 38
• 3. Beyond Human Nature = 57
• The Divine Will = 57
• Reason = 59
• Cognitivism : The Truth Value of Moral Judgments = 62
• On the Road to Skepticism? = 67
• 4. Criticism : Human Nature as the Source of Hope = 73
• Human Genetic Program : Stanislaw Ossowski's Manichean Predilections = 73
• Individual Diversity : From Warsaw to Treblinka, 1942 - 43 = 75
• Divergent Societies = 79
• 5. Countercriticism : The Human Rights Struggle and the Need for Justification = 85
• The Difficulties of the Human Rights Struggle : Contagion = 85
• The Difficulties of the Human Rights Struggle : From Moral to Legal Change = 92
• 6. Conclusion : The Importance of Justification = 127
• The Dilemma of Gustav Radbruch : Law, Positivism, and Genocide = 128
• The Importance of Justification = 134
• Bibliography = 139
• Index = 149