Human rights and human well-being

Explaining the development of human rights as a process of moral improvement in ground level moral and legal practices, the author considers the process by which moral and legal practices are improved. There is focus on moral improvement and how to apply the model of moral improvement to improvements in the law

In this book, William J. Talbott examines the meaning of moral progress, claiming that improvements to our moral or legal practices are changes that, when evaluated as a practice, contribute to equitably promoting well-being. Talbott completes the project begun in his 2005 book of identifying the human rights that should be universal and identifies a list of fourteen robust, inalienable human rights.