| Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy - Second Edition Revised Edition Contributor(s): Shue, Henry (Author) |
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ISBN: 0691029296 ISBN-13: 9780691029290 Publisher: Princeton University Press OUR PRICE: $34.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 1996 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: This book is about the moral minimum--about the lower limits on tolerable human conduct, individual and institutional. It concerns the least that every person can demand and the least that every person, every government, and every corporation must be made to do. In this respect the bit of theory presented here belongs to one of the bottom corners of the edifice of human values. About the great aspirations and exalted ideals, saintly restraint and heroic fortitude and awesome beauties that enrich life, nothing appears here. They are not denied but simply deferred for other occasions. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | International Relations - General - Political Science | Human Rights - Political Science | Civil Rights |
| Dewey: 323.4 |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.48" W x 8.43" (0.82 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Which human rights ought to be the first honored and the last sacrificed? In the first systematic attempt by an American philosopher to address the issue of human rights as it relates to U.S. foreign policy, Henry Shue proposes an original conception of basic rights that illuminates both the nature of moral rights generally and the determination of which specific rights are the basic ones. |
