TY  - BOOK
AU  - Frohnen,Bruce
AU  - Grasso,Kenneth L.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Rethinking rights: historical, political, and philosophical perspectives 
T2  - The Eric Voegelin Institute series in political philosophy
AV  - JC571 .R478 2009eb
U1  - 323.09 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Columbia
PB  - University of Missouri Press
KW  - Human rights
KW  - History
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction; Rights in a multicultural age; Bruce P. Frohnen, Kenneth L. Grasso --; Historical roots of modern rights: before Locke and after; Brian Tierney --; Natural rights and social contract in Burke and Bellarmine; Gary D. Glenn --; Natural law, natural rights, and the Declaration of Independence; George W. Carey --; Individual and group rights: self-government and claims of right in historical practice; Bruce P. Frohnen --; The; ontology of rights; Kenneth L. Schmitz --; The; historical and communal roots of legal rights and the erosion of the state; Paul Gottfried --; Reintegrating rights: Catholicism, social ontology, and contemporary rights discourse; Kenneth L. Grasso --; Toward a social pluralist theory of institutional rights; Jonathan Chaplin --; Epilogue; Toward an integrative vision; Bruce P. Frohnen; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
N2  - "Essays retrace the historical development of rights in the West, assessing the influence of Locke, Burke, and the authors of the Declaration of Independence to clarify the experience of rights within the Western tradition, showing that rights need to be rethought so that they may again truly serve the human good"--Provided by publisher
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10364866
ER  -