Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign PolicyThis 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. |
Contents
Security and Subsistence | 13 |
Correlative Duties | 35 |
Liberty | 65 |
THREE CHALLENGES TO SUBSISTENCE RIGHTS | 89 |
Realism and Responsibility | 91 |
Affluence and Responsibility | 111 |
Nationality and Responsibility | 131 |
Rightgrounded Duties and the Institutional Turn | 153 |
Notes | 181 |
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