Which human rights ought to be the first honored and the last sacrificed? In the first systematic attempt by an American philosopher to address the issue of human rights as it relates to U.S. foreign policy, Henry Shue proposes an original conception of basic rights that illuminates both the nature of moral rights generally and the determination of which specific rights are the basic ones.
- ISBN10 0691029296
- ISBN13 9780691029290
- Publish Date 17 November 1996 (first published 21 December 1980)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Princeton University Press
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 256
- Language English
- URL https://press.princeton.edu/titles/5897.html