Catholic Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights

Western legal culture looked to the Christian religion for its foundational cosmopolitan ideas, and at the beginnings of the human rights movement returned to that moral vocabulary to ground the further growth of the international order in the twentieth century.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Catholic cosmopolitan and the birth of human rights; 2. Catholic cosmopolitanism from the centre to the periphery; 3. Catholic cosmopolitanism from the periphery to international concern; 4. Locating a modern Christian cosmopolitanism; 5. An imperfect cosmopolitan project; Conclusion.

About the author

Leonard Taylor is a graduate of the Irish Centre for Human Rights in National University of Ireland, Galway, where he lectures in human rights law. He is also an assistant lecturer at the Institute of Technology, Sligo.

Summary

Western legal culture looked to the Christian religion for its foundational cosmopolitan ideas, and at the beginnings of the human rights movement returned to that moral vocabulary to ground the further growth of the international order in the twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: Leonard Francis Taylor, Leonard Francis (National University of Ir Taylor
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781108731805
• ISBN: 978-1-108-73180-5
• No. of pages: 358
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Family law; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, International Relations, Political science & theory, Religion & politics, Legal History, Religion and Politics, Political science and theory, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Human rights, civil rights