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

Shue, Henry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691072590 ISBN 13: 9780691072593

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1980

Synopsis

The description for this book, Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy, will be forthcoming.

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: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0691072590
• ISBN 13: 9780691072593
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 248