Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy - Softcover

Shue, Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691029296 ISBN 13: 9780691029290

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1996

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Back Cover

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.

About the Author

Henry Shue is Wyn and William Y. Hutchinson Professor of Ethics and Public Life at Cornell University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0691029296
• ISBN 13: 9780691029290
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 256