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THE MOST HUMAN RIGHT - ERIC HEINZE TASCHENBUCH

A bold  groundbreaking argument by a world-renowned expert that unless we treat free speech as
the fundamental human right  there can be no others. What are human rights? Are they laid out
definitively in the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights or the US Bill of Rights? Are
they items on a checklist—dignity  justice  progress  standard of living  health care  housing?
In The Most Human Right  Eric Heinze explains why global human rights systems have failed.
International organizations constantly report on how governments manage human goods  such as
fair trials  humane conditions of detention  healthcare  or housing. But to appease autocratic
regimes  experts have ignored the primacy of free speech. Heinze argues that goods become
rights only when citizens can claim them publicly and fearlessly: free speech is the
fundamental right  without which the very concept of a right” makes no sense. Heinze argues
that throughout history countless systems of justice have promised human goods. What  then 
makes human rights different? What must human rights have that other systems have lacked?
Heinze revisits the origins of the concept  exploring what it means for a nation to protect
human rights  and what a citizen needs in order to pursue them. He explains how free speech
distinguishes human rights from other ideas about justice  past and present.

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