Brett Fawcett on Jacques Maritain and Human Rights - Part 2

Thinking Faith: Catholic Podcast

Returning guest, Brett Fawcett discusses the development of Just War Theory and universal human rights as developed through the middle ages into modernity through the work of Jacques Maritain.

"So Maritain, he's writing this during World War Two, he's very influential, and he writes this book on the Rights of Man and natural law and says 'once this war is over we've got to really establish these rights for everyone to know about and his appendix is like a bill of international human rights..."