Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry
10 best books like Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (Michael Ignatieff): God, Philosophy, Universities: A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition, Living High and Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence, The Thomas Paine Reader, The Devil Knows Latin: Why America Needs the Classical Tradition, The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What it Means to Be an Educated Human Being, The Great Books: A Journey through 2,500 Years of the West's Classic Literature, The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America, Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact, Roots Of American Order, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
God, Philosophy, Universities: A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition
'What does it mean to be a human being?' Given this perennial question, Alasdair MacIntyre, one of America's preeminent philosophers, presents a compelling argument on the necessity and importance of philosophy. Because of a need to better understand Catholic philosophical thought, especially...
Living High and Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence
| Author | Peter K. Unger |
| ISBN | 0195108590 |
By contributing a few hundred dollars to a charity like UNICEF, a prosperous person can ensure that fewer poor children die, and that more will live reasonably long, worthwhile lives. Even when knowing this, however, most people send nothing, and almost all of the rest send little. What is the moral...
| Author | Thomas Paine |
| ISBN | 0140444963 |
This major collection demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine (1737—1809) was an inspiration to the Americans in their struggle for independence, a passionate supporter of the French Revolution and perhaps the outstanding English radical writer of his age. It contains all of Paine's key...
| Author | E. Christian Kopff |
| ISBN | 1882926250 |
It's tremendously learned, and mostly well-written, and I want to agree with his message because I think a classics-heavy education is a great idea, but I disagree strongly with almost everything he says. His grand scheme seems to be teaching children Latin rather than social studies, and completely...
| Author | Richard Gamble |
| ISBN | 1933859253 |
Frustrated with the continuing educational crisis of our time, concerned parents, teachers, and students sense that true reform requires more than innovative classroom technology, standardized tests, or skills training. An older tradition—the Great Tradition—of education in the West...
| Author | Anthony O'Hear |
| ISBN | 1933859784 |
The Odyssey, Paradise Lost, The Canterbury Tales: great literature can be read by anyone, with a little help. The eminent British philosopher Anthony O’Hear leads the way with this captivating journey through two-and-a-half millennia of books as powerful, thrilling, erotic, politically astute,...
The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America
| Author | Richard John Neuhaus |
| ISBN | 0802800807 |
Underlying the many crises in American life, writes Richard John Neuhaus, is a crisis of faith. It is not enough that more people should believe or that those who believe should believe more strongly. Rather, the faith of persons and communities must be more compellingly related to the public arena....
Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact
| Author | Samantha Power |
| ISBN | 1403973113 |
At the dawn of a new era, this book brings together leading activists, policy-makers and critics to reflect upon fifty years of attempts to improve respect for human rights. Authors include President Jimmy Carter, who helped inject human rights concerns into US policy; Wei Jingsheng, who struggled...
| Author | Russell Kirk |
| ISBN | 1882926994 |
Typically, I am a pretty great reader. I finish books quickly. But if book-reading-records were “broken”, this book did it for me.
It took me three weeks to read this whole book. Now, I have to add that that is at a ploddy speed. I didn't read for hours each day, and sometimes I didn't read at...
| Author | Carl Schmitt |
| ISBN | 0226738892 |
Written in the intense political and intellectual tumult of the early years of the Weimar Republic, Political Theology develops the distinctive theory of sovereignty that made Carl Schmitt one of the most significant and controversial political theorists of the twentieth century.
Focusing...
| Author | Ronald Dworkin |
| ISBN | 0674008103 |
Equality is the endangered species of political ideals. Even left-of-center politicians reject equality as an ideal: government must combat poverty, they say, but need not strive that its citizens be equal in any dimension. In his new book Ronald Dworkin insists, to the contrary, that equality is...
The Death of Character: Moral Education in an Age Without Good or Evil
| Author | James Davison Hunter |
| ISBN | 0465031773 |
The Death of Character is a broad historical, sociological, and cultural inquiry into the moral life and moral education of young Americans based upon a huge empirical study of the children themselves. The children's thoughts and concerns-expressed here in their own words-shed a whole new light...
| Author | Mary Ann Glendon |
| ISBN | 0375760466 |
Unafraid to speak her mind and famously tenacious in her convictions, Eleanor Roosevelt was still mourning the death of FDR when she was asked by President Truman to lead a controversial commission, under the auspices of the newly formed United Nations, to forge the world’s first international...
| Author | Lynn Hunt |
| ISBN | 0312108028 |
I went into The French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief Documentary History convinced that the unassailable fortress that is human rights is a concept that has outlasted its usefulness, and I am even more convinced now.
Reading the documents that historian Lynn Hunt has brought together,...
Small is Still Beautiful: Economics as if Families Mattered
| Author | Joseph Pearce |
| ISBN | 1933859059 |
A Third of a century ago, E. F. Schumacher rang out a timely warning against the idolatry of giantism with his book Small Is Beautiful. Few books before or since have spoken so profoundly to urgent economic and social considerations. Humanity was lurching blindly in the wrong direction, argued Schumacher....
The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics
| Author | Hedley Bull |
| ISBN | 0231127634 |
"The Anarchical Society" is one of the masterworks of political science and the classic text on the nature of order in world politics. Originally published in 1977, it continues to define and shape the discipline of international relations. This edition has been updated with a new, interpretive foreword...
The title is not quite right--instead of human rights in history, this is a realist critique since 1945, asking the question I have at the heart of my deep cynicism: rather than lionize the people and documents that talk about human rights, why not ask why no one feels compelled to obey them? With sidelights...
| Author | Lon L. Fuller |
| ISBN | 0300010702 |
In a lengthy new concluding chapter labeled "A Reply to Critics," Lon L. Fuller extends and clarifies his definition of the relation between law and morality put forward in the first (1964) edition of The Morality of Law. His original argument distinguishes between the morality of duty and the morality...
| Author | Jack Donnelly |
| ISBN | 0801487765 |
In a thoroughly revised second edition of Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice, Jack Donnelly elaborates a theory of human rights, addresses arguments of cultural relativism, and explores the efficacy of bilateral and multilateral international action. Entirely new chapters address...
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 12/10/48 at Palais de Chaillot, Paris. The Guinness Book of Records describes the UDHR as the "Most Translated Document" in the world. It consists of thirty articles which outline the...
| Author | M. Daniel Carroll R. |
Immigration is one of the most pressing issues on the national agenda. This accessible book provides biblical and ethical guidance for readers who are looking for a Christian perspective on the immigration issue. As both a Guatemalan and an American, the author has immersed himself in this issue and...
| Author | Jürgen Habermas |
| ISBN | 1586171666 |
Two of the worlds great contemporary thinkers--theologian and churchman Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, and Jurgen Habermas, philosopher and Neo-Marxist social critic--discuss and debate aspects of secularization, and the role of reason and religion in a free society. These insightful...
| Author | Gregg A. Ten Elshof |
| ISBN | 0802864112 |
Think youve ever deceived yourself? Then this book is for you. / Think youve never deceived yourself? Then this book is really for you. / Socrates famously asserted that the unexamined life is not worth living. But Gregg Ten Elshof shows us that we make all sorts of little deals with ourselves every day...
| Author | Hannah Arendt |
| ISBN | 0143104810 |
Arendt’s penetrating observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, constitute a major contribution to political philosophy. In this book she describes the perplexing crises which modern society faces as a result of the loss of meaning of the traditional key words...
World Poverty and Human Rights
| Author | Thomas W. Pogge |
| ISBN | 0745629954 |
The poorest 46 percent of humankind have 1.2 percent of global income.
Their purchasing power per person per day is less than that of $2.15 in
the US in 1993; 826 million of them do not have enough to eat. One-third
of all human deaths are from poverty-related causes: 18 million
annually,...
