The Ground of Human Rights

If, like me, you are interested in the question of the ground of human rights--more precisely, the ground of what I call "the morality of human rights"--you may want to track down and peruse the two following books:

Roger Ruston, Human Rights and the Image of God (SCM Press 2004).

Thomas D. Williams, Who Is My Neighbor?  Personalism and the Foundations of Human Rights (Catholic University of America Press 2005).

(For my struggles with the issues, see here and here.)

Michael P.