Human Rights and Moral Reasoning: A Comparative Investigation by Way of Three Theorists and their Respective Traditions of Oenquiry: John Finnis Ronald Dworkin and Jurgen Habermas

This study is a response to the observation of the critical importance of human rights in the ethical discourse of the public sphere. Yet despite the broad consensus there exists a plurality of approaches to their exposition and justification; each bound to a particular way of moral theology requires that such models be taken seriously. To this end it presents a comparative investifgation of three theorists, each rappresentative of a different tradition of enquiry...