Review: Rights from Wrongs: A Secular Theory of the Origins of Rights

Rights from Wrongs: A Secular Theory of the Origins of Rights Rights from Wrongs: A Secular Theory of the Origins of Rights by Alan M. Dershowitz
My rating: 3 of 5 stars


This was a very approachable book with satisfying answers to several questions that had been bouncing around in my gray matter for a while regarding human rights. If rights are "inalienable," why have they been alienated with such regularity? If they're "self-evident," then why are periods of freedom and personal rights the exception and tyranny the norm? If "God did it" isn't a satisfying explanation for where our rights come from, what's the secular alternative? I walked away satisfied that a theory of rights can (and must) be built upon human experience, not natural law or an appeal to the divine.

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