"Manent..argues that the concept of rights arose as a rejection of the classical Aristotelian and Christian notions of government based on an authoritative law that established an objective idea of the good life"

(PDF) Pierre Manent: Natural Law and Human Rights ... - ResearchGate Pierre Manent: Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason. Translated by Ralph C. Hancock with a foreword by Daniel J. Mahoney. (Notre Dame, IN: University

(PDF) Pierre Manent: Natural Law and Human Rights ... - ResearchGate Pie... Pierre Manent is one of France ’ s leading public intellectuals and the auth or of numerous works of political p...