TY - GEN T1 - Justice : rights and wrongs A1 - Wolterstorff, Nicholas LA - English PP - Princeton PB - Princeton University Press YR - 2008 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn438654437 AB - Wide-ranging and ambitious, Justice combines moral philosophy and Christian ethics to develop an important theory of rights and of justice as grounded in rights. Nicholas Wolterstorff discusses what it is to have a right, and he locates rights in the respect due the worth of the rights-holder. After contending that socially-conferred rights require the existence of natural rights, he argues that no secular account of natural human rights is successful; he offers instead a theistic account. Wolterstorff prefaces his systematic account of justice as grounded in rights with an exploration of the. OP - 400 CN - BR115.J8 W65 2008eb SN - 9781400828715 SN - 1400828716 SN - 1282157647 SN - 9781282157644 SN - 9780691129679 SN - 0691129673 SN - 9780691146300 KW - Christianity and justice. KW - Human rights : Religious aspects : Christianity. KW - Justice : Aspect religieux : Christianisme. KW - RELIGION : Christian Theology : Ethics. KW - Christianity and justice KW - Human rights : Religious aspects : Christianity KW - Rechtvaardigheid. KW - Rechten. KW - Electronic book. ER -