Immovable Laws, Irresistible Rights: Natural Law, Moral Rights, and Feminist Ethics

by Christine Pierce

Book Overview

Same-sex partnerships. Pregnancy through in vitro fertilization. Ending one's own life in dignity. All are deemed inherently wrong by the standards of natural law ethics, but for many people they represent legitimate life choices that are morally right.

Now a leading feminist critic of the natural law tradition explores the ongoing confrontation between natural law and moral rights to argue that rights constitute a more solid grounding for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700610707
• ISBN13: 9780700610709
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"