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Immovable Laws, Irresistible Rights: Natural Law, Moral Rights, and Feminist Ethics
Christine Pierce
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Description for Immovable Laws, Irresistible Rights: Natural Law, Moral Rights, and Feminist Ethics
Hardcover. Same-sex partnerships and ending one's own life are deemed inherently wrong by the standards of natural law ethics. This text explores the ongoing confrontation between natural law and moral rights to argue that rights constitute a more solid grounding for ethics in human affairs. Series: Feminist Ethics S. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFM; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 417.
Same-sex partnerships. Pregnancy through in vitro fertilization. Ending one's own life in dignity. All are deemed inherently wrong by the standards of natural law ethics, but for many people they represent legitimate life choices that are morally right. Now a leading feminist critic of the natural law tradition explores the ongoing confrontation between natural law and moral rights to argue that rights constitute a more solid grounding for ethics in human affairs - and for feminist thought. In this volume, Christine Pierce's important essays - including the celebrated ""Natural Law Language and Women"" - expand, reflect, and refine this central ... Read more
Same-sex partnerships. Pregnancy through in vitro fertilization. Ending one's own life in dignity. All are deemed inherently wrong by the standards of natural law ethics, but for many people they represent legitimate life choices that are morally right. Now a leading feminist critic of the natural law tradition explores the ongoing confrontation between natural law and moral rights to argue that rights constitute a more solid grounding for ethics in human affairs - and for feminist thought. In this volume, Christine Pierce's important essays - including the celebrated ""Natural Law Language and Women"" - expand, reflect, and refine this central ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Condition
New
Series
Feminist Ethics S.
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700610709
SKU
V9780700610709
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About Christine Pierce
Christine Pierce is professor of philosophy at North Carolina State University. Her articles on ethics and feminism have appeared in many journals and anthologies. She is coeditor of People, Penguins, and Plastic Trees: Basic Issues in Environmental Ethics, The Environmental Ethics and Policy Book, and AIDS: Ethics and Public Policy.
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