Covenantal rights : a study in Jewish political theory /
Covenantal Rights is a groundbreaking work of political theory: a comprehensive, philosophically sophisticated attempt to bring insights from the Jewish political tradition into current political and legal debates about rights and to bring rights discourse more fully into Jewish thought. David Novak...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
©2000.
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| Serier: | New forum books.
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| Online adgang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7rm3g |
| Summary: | Covenantal Rights is a groundbreaking work of political theory: a comprehensive, philosophically sophisticated attempt to bring insights from the Jewish political tradition into current political and legal debates about rights and to bring rights discourse more fully into Jewish thought. David Novak pursues these aims by presenting a theory of rights founded on the covenant between God and the Jewish people as that covenant is constituted by Scripture and the rabbinic tradition. In doing so, he presents a powerful challenge to prevailing liberal and conservative positions on rights and duties. |
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| Fysisk beskrivelse: | 1 online resource (xii, 240 pages) |
| Bibliografi: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-231) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1400812828 9781400812820 9781400823529 1400823528 9780691026800 0691026807 |