When was the idea of human rights invented, and do we need it?
Gresham College Lectures
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Gresham College Lectures
When was the idea of human rights invented, and do we need it?
May 22, 2002
Gresham College
Were the inventors the ancient Stoics, the Roman lawyers, the 17th century Dutch, the authors of the American Revolution? Can there be universal justice without such an idea, and what does it add?

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