Idea of Human Rights

Inspired by a 1988 trip to El Salvador, Michael J. Perry''s new book is a personal and scholarly exploration of the idea of human rights. Perry is one of our nation''s leading authorities on the relation of morality, including religious morality, to politics and law. He seeks, in this book, to disentangle the complex idea of human rights by way of four probing and interrelated essays. * The initi...