Life to the Full: Rights and Social Justice in AustraliaJames Franklin Humans are made in God's image, Christians believe. As beings of immense value, they possess objective worth and inalienable rights. Since society is made for humans, economic and political arrangements must respect human rights, from the right to life to the rights to education, association and free expression. In this collection, experts consider the full range of rights that go to make up a free society fit for a full human life. They apply to current Australian conditions the insights of Catholic social thinking, a perspective both older than the competing ideologies of socialism and capitalism and more in accordance with the real world of the new century. |
Contents
The right to life | 15 |
The right to religious formation | 27 |
The right to personal liberty under just | 33 |
The right to the equal protection of just | 39 |
The right to freedom of expression | 45 |
The right to choose and freely maintain a state | 51 |
The right to education | 57 |
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