Human rights-Philosophy -- Human rights- law and Legislation

Indeks : P.465-466 ; The task of editing a collection of essayson legal rights has come peculiar difficulties. It is not only that, as usual, there are several conflicting criteria which press in different directions : whether to take into account the historical interest of the piece or its present influence in discussion; whether to consider the fact of its being either widely known and cited or little known and desering to be so, or whether to give priority to the fact that the piece touches fundamental but abstract issues or that it deals with questions in the concrete and sometimes instrumental form in which they are posed in certain institutional settings.