Rights: What's Right and Wrong with Them

Nigel Biggar

Jun 2027 · Swift Press

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Must the notion of a right be individualistic, subverting the common good? Are rights ethically fundamental, impervious to changing circumstances?

In Rights, Nigel Biggar draws upon wide resources in intellectual history, legal philosophy, moral philosophy and human rights literature to argue that we should abandon right-fundamentalism in favour of a richer public discourse about ethics.

Must the notion of a right be individualistic, subverting the common good? Are rights ethically fundamental, impervious to changing circumstances? In Rights, Nigel Biggar draws upon wide resources in intellectual history, legal philosophy, moral philosophy and human rights literature to argue th...

About the author

Nigel Biggar, CBE is Lord Biggar of Castle Douglas and Emeritus Regius Professor of Moral Theology at the University of Oxford. Described as “one of the leading living Western ethicists” (John Gray, New Statesman, 2020), he was appointed Commander of the British Empire “for services to higher education” in the 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours list and named one of Prospect magazine’s Top Thinkers of 2024. In January 2025 he entered the House of Lords as a Conservative peer. He is the author of the best-selling Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning.

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