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Human Rights Ethics makes an important contribution to contemporary philosophical and political debates concerning the advancement of global justice and human rights. Butlers book also lays claim to a significant place in both normative ethics andMoreHuman Rights Ethics makes an important contribution to contemporary philosophical and political debates concerning the advancement of global justice and human rights. Butlers book also lays claim to a significant place in both normative ethics and human rights studies in as much as it seeks to vindicate a universalistic, rational approach to human rights ethics. Butlers innovative approach is not based on murky claims to natural rights which supposedly hold wherever human beings exist- nor does it succumb to the traditional problems of justification associated with utilitarianism, Kantianism, and other procedural approaches to human rights studies. Foreword Steven Hicks Human Rights Ethics: A Rational Approach by Clark Butler
