Imputed Rights

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yeutter

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Professor Robert V. Andelson is not someone I know much about. In the early 1970s Russell Kirk praised this book in the University Bookman. Kirk was impressed with Andelson's attempts to renew the metaphysical foundations of natural rights.

Recently I discovered this book was still in print.

In his book Imputed Rights: An Essay in Christian Social Theory, Professor Andelson sets forth a ground for Christians to appeal to natural rights. He examines the radical humanist and utilitarian approaches to the idea of rights and exposes the difficulty of holding to such a position.

Andelson's thesis is that the will and grace of God are the absolute grounds for human rights.

On a personal note, when I first read this book, about forty-five years ago, I was somewhat enamored with the thinking of Ayn Rand. This book caused me to utterly reject Ayn Rand's ideas. I loaned my copy to a hardliner student of objectivism. He read it and told me; that he now understood how objectivists and Catholic libertarians could be co-belligerents.
 
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