Could There Be Universal Natural Rights?

07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies Antony G. N. Flew

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This paper is a consideration of whether there could be such universal and natural human rights, or whether such a suggestion is indeed “simple nonsense.” So on this occasion no attempt will be made definitively to establish what, if any, there actually are.

Volume 6, Number 3 (1982)

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Flew, Antony. “Could There Be Universal Natural Rights?” Journal of Libertarian Studies 6, No. 3 (1982): 277–288.

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