Arguably the most significant philosophical meditation on human rights... [since] the Universal Declaration of Human Rights... Not only the most powerful, fully elaborated contemporary philosophical contribution to the topic, but also one that has put in place many of the foundations on which any future work should build.

• Introduction ; PART I: AN ACCOUNT OF HUMAN RIGHTS ; I. Human Rights: The Incomplete Idea ; II. First Steps in An Account of Human Rights ; III. When Human Rights Conflict ; IV. Whose Rights? ; V. My Rights: But Whose Duties? ; VI. The Metaphysics of Human Rights ; VII. The Relativity and Ethnocentricity of Human Rights ; PART II: HIGHEST LEVEL HUMAN RIGHTS ; VIII. Autonomy ; IX. Liberty ; X. Welfare ; PART III: APPLICATIONS ; XI. Discrepanices Between the Best Philosophical Account of Human Rights and the International Law of Human Rights ; XII. A Right to Life, A Right to Death ; XIII. Privacy ; XIV. Do Human Rights Require Democracy? ; XV. Group Rights

Arguably the most significant philosophical meditation on human rights... [since] the Universal Declaration of Human Rights... Not only the most powerful, fully elaborated contemporary philosophical contribution to the topic, but also one that has put in place many of the foundations on which any future work should build.

• Introduction ; PART I: AN ACCOUNT OF HUMAN RIGHTS ; I. Human Rights: The Incomplete Idea ; II. First Steps in An Account of Human Rights ; III. When Human Rights Conflict ; IV. Whose Rights? ; V. My Rights: But Whose Duties? ; VI. The Metaphysics of Human Rights ; VII. The Relativity and Ethnocentricity of Human Rights ; PART II: HIGHEST LEVEL HUMAN RIGHTS ; VIII. Autonomy ; IX. Liberty ; X. Welfare ; PART III: APPLICATIONS ; XI. Discrepanices Between the Best Philosophical Account of Human Rights and the International Law of Human Rights ; XII. A Right to Life, A Right to Death ; XIII. Privacy ; XIV. Do Human Rights Require Democracy? ; XV. Group Rights

Arguably the most significant philosophical meditation on human rights... [since] the Universal Declaration of Human Rights... Not only the most powerful, fully elaborated contemporary philosophical contribution to the topic, but also one that has put in place many of the foundations on which any future work should build.

• Introduction ; PART I: AN ACCOUNT OF HUMAN RIGHTS ; I. Human Rights: The Incomplete Idea ; II. First Steps in An Account of Human Rights ; III. When Human Rights Conflict ; IV. Whose Rights? ; V. My Rights: But Whose Duties? ; VI. The Metaphysics of Human Rights ; VII. The Relativity and Ethnocentricity of Human Rights ; PART II: HIGHEST LEVEL HUMAN RIGHTS ; VIII. Autonomy ; IX. Liberty ; X. Welfare ; PART III: APPLICATIONS ; XI. Discrepanices Between the Best Philosophical Account of Human Rights and the International Law of Human Rights ; XII. A Right to Life, A Right to Death ; XIII. Privacy ; XIV. Do Human Rights Require Democracy? ; XV. Group Rights