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Organized chronologically, this volume examines some major philosophies and movements that have influenced contemporary public administration. Aimed at advanced students of public administration and policy, it begins with a discussion of the ideas of Plato and the invention of political science. Subsequent contributions from leading scholars addres

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?

Portrait of a warrior : the life and death of Nomoto Tomoyuki -- Tactics, innovation, and organization : a statistical narrative of war -- The sinews of war : military supply and the consolidation of regional authority -- Status creation, social mobility, and war -- Largesse and the limits of loyalty : lordly obligations in the age of two courts -- Sacred war -- Law and the legitimation of judicial violence -- The order of violence