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Title:

BASIC RIGHTS
SUBSISTENCE, AFFLUENCE, AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY, SECOND EDITION

By:

Henry Shue

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0691029296

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9780691029290

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Publisher:

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

28 October, 1996

Edition:

Second edition with a New afterword by the author

Pages:

256

Description:

Which human rights ought to be the first honored and the last sacrificed? This title addresses the issue of human rights as it relates to US foreign policy. It 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.

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.

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Princeton University Press

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