Part one: Rights in the crosshairs
Defining human rights
Some needed nuances
The church and human rights
Part two: The case against rights
The accusation of nonexistence
The accusation of inseparability
The accusation of innovation
Part three: A new solution to an old problem : thomistic personalism
A personalism primer
The person according to personalism
Dignity and its due
The two loves
From love to human rights
Christ and human dignity
Part four: Human rights and classical ethics
Natural law
Natural justice
Natural rights in classical theory
Part five: Towards an ethics of solidarity
Who is my neighbor?