Tibor Machan was smuggled out of communist Hungary at fourteen, served in the US Air Force, and then went on to earn his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in philosophy (Claremont M. College, NYU, and UC Santa Barbara, respectively). He has written approximately thirty books and edited twenty-five —- details may be found at http://tibikem.spaces.live.com/blog/ —- and written over 200 papers for academic journals in numerous disciplines. He edited Reason Papers for twenty-five years. He was the editor and a founder of Reason Magazine. Machan writes syndicated columns for Freedom News Wire, Free Inquiry Magazine, and numerous web sites and blogs. He holds the R. C. Hoiles Chair in Business Ethics and Free Enterprise at Chapman University's Argyros School of Business and Economics in Orange, CA.

• Chapter 1 Preface to the 2nd editionChapter 2 Preface to the 2st editionChapter 3 Chapter 1 Human History and Human Natural RightsChapter 4 Chapter 2 What Are Human Rights?Chapter 5 Chapter 3 Human Rights and Good Human CommunitiesChapter 6 Chapter 4 Revisiting the Ground of Human RightsChapter 7 WChapter 5 ronging RightsChapter 8 Chapter 6 Government and Human RightsChapter 9 Chapter 7 The Realpolitik and Human RightsChapter 10 Chapter 8 Facing some Critical ConsiderationsChapter 11 Chapter 9 On the Prospects of Human RightsChapter 12 EpilogueChapter 13 EndnotesChapter 14 IndexChapter 15 BibliographyChapter 16 About the Author

Tibor Machan was smuggled out of communist Hungary at fourteen, served in the US Air Force, and then went on to earn his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in philosophy (Claremont M. College, NYU, and UC Santa Barbara, respectively). He has written approximately thirty books and edited twenty-five —- details may be found at http://tibikem.spaces.live.com/blog/ —- and written over 200 papers for academic journals in numerous disciplines. He edited Reason Papers for twenty-five years. He was the editor and a founder of Reason Magazine. Machan writes syndicated columns for Freedom News Wire, Free Inquiry Magazine, and numerous web sites and blogs. He holds the R. C. Hoiles Chair in Business Ethics and Free Enterprise at Chapman University's Argyros School of Business and Economics in Orange, CA.

• Chapter 1 Preface to the 2nd editionChapter 2 Preface to the 2st editionChapter 3 Chapter 1 Human History and Human Natural RightsChapter 4 Chapter 2 What Are Human Rights?Chapter 5 Chapter 3 Human Rights and Good Human CommunitiesChapter 6 Chapter 4 Revisiting the Ground of Human RightsChapter 7 WChapter 5 ronging RightsChapter 8 Chapter 6 Government and Human RightsChapter 9 Chapter 7 The Realpolitik and Human RightsChapter 10 Chapter 8 Facing some Critical ConsiderationsChapter 11 Chapter 9 On the Prospects of Human RightsChapter 12 EpilogueChapter 13 EndnotesChapter 14 IndexChapter 15 BibliographyChapter 16 About the Author

Tibor Machan was smuggled out of communist Hungary at fourteen, served in the US Air Force, and then went on to earn his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in philosophy (Claremont M. College, NYU, and UC Santa Barbara, respectively). He has written approximately thirty books and edited twenty-five —- details may be found at http://tibikem.spaces.live.com/blog/ —- and written over 200 papers for academic journals in numerous disciplines. He edited Reason Papers for twenty-five years. He was the editor and a founder of Reason Magazine. Machan writes syndicated columns for Freedom News Wire, Free Inquiry Magazine, and numerous web sites and blogs. He holds the R. C. Hoiles Chair in Business Ethics and Free Enterprise at Chapman University's Argyros School of Business and Economics in Orange, CA.

• Chapter 1 Preface to the 2nd editionChapter 2 Preface to the 2st editionChapter 3 Chapter 1 Human History and Human Natural RightsChapter 4 Chapter 2 What Are Human Rights?Chapter 5 Chapter 3 Human Rights and Good Human CommunitiesChapter 6 Chapter 4 Revisiting the Ground of Human RightsChapter 7 WChapter 5 ronging RightsChapter 8 Chapter 6 Government and Human RightsChapter 9 Chapter 7 The Realpolitik and Human RightsChapter 10 Chapter 8 Facing some Critical ConsiderationsChapter 11 Chapter 9 On the Prospects of Human RightsChapter 12 EpilogueChapter 13 EndnotesChapter 14 IndexChapter 15 BibliographyChapter 16 About the Author