BOOK REVIEWS ception of a worthwhile life (150-57). Liberty is enjoying a large rea in
which others do not stop us from pursuing the lives we have c 159-75). And minimum …

The orthodox conception of human rights holds that human rights are moral rights
possessed by all human beings simply in virtue of their humanity. In recent years, advocates …

The concept of human rights raises problems that are, on the one hand, practical and urgent,
and, on the other hand, theoretical and abstract. For human rights proponents and …

This chapter argues that a philosophically respectable concept of human rights has been
muddied, obscured, and debilitated by an attempt to incorporate into it specific rights of a …

What are we talking about, when we talk about human rights? No doubt various senses
attach to the phrase “human rights”. Some are purely descriptive, characterizing human …

Human rights have become a wider and more visible feature of our political discourse, yet
many have also noted the great discrepancy between the human rights invoked in this …

Human rights are rights which all persons equally have simply insofar as they are human.
But are there any such rights? How, if at all, do we know that there are? It is with this …

This essay explores the relation between two perspectives on the nature of human rights.
According to the “political” or “practical” perspective, human rights are claims that individuals …

First published in 1985. In this study, Donnelly distinguishes between" having a right" and"
being right" and elaborates the distinction with great subtlety to show that rights have to be …

Over the past decade or so, philosophical speculation about human rights has tended to fall
into two streams. On the one hand, there are" Orthodox" theorists, who think of human rights …