University Press of America
Pages: 294
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7618-5358-9 • Paperback • November 2010 • $50.99 • (£39.00)
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 edition
Chapter 2 Preface to the 2st edition
Chapter 3 Chapter 1 Human History and Human Natural Rights
Chapter 4 Chapter 2 What Are Human Rights?
Chapter 5 Chapter 3 Human Rights and Good Human Communities
Chapter 6 Chapter 4 Revisiting the Ground of Human Rights
Chapter 7 WChapter 5 ronging Rights
Chapter 8 Chapter 6 Government and Human Rights
Chapter 9 Chapter 7 The Realpolitik and Human Rights
Chapter 10 Chapter 8 Facing some Critical Considerations
Chapter 11 Chapter 9 On the Prospects of Human Rights
Chapter 12 Epilogue
Chapter 13 Endnotes
Chapter 14 Index
Chapter 15 Bibliography
Chapter 16 About the Author