Table of Contents
- I. THE RIGHTS OF THE “HUMAN” OVER THE “NON-HUMAN”: THE UNDECLARED WORLD WAR OF HUMAN RIGHTS VERSUS CORPORATE RIGHTS
- Right to Life: From Right-Wing Slogan to Life-Grounded Comprehension
- Intrinsic Life Worth and Humanity’s Universal Being
- Projecting Personhood onto the Non-Human to Deprive the Human
- The Life-Value Onto-Ethic in Contrast
- II. FINDING THE LOST LIFE-VALUE GROUND AND MEASURE: THE COMMON LIFE INTEREST OF LEGITIMATE RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
- Capabilities: Regrounding Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum in Life Need and Value
- Individual Differences and the Life-Value Criterion and Measure of Legitimate Rights
- Thinking Past the Life-Blind Paradigms
- The Universal Human Life Necessities
- Universal Life Needs the Basis of All Legitimate Rights
- III. GROWING THE LIFE GOODS BASE: BEYOND MONEY, IDEOLOGY AND PRODUCTIVE FORCES
- Why Marx Does not Solve the Problem
- Predictable Downfall of Human and Planetary Life Until Life-Value Turn
- From Moral and Legal Philosophy to Marxian Revolution: The Missing Life-Ground
- The Modern Blind Eye: No Life-Value Standard to Steer Productive Development
- The First Requirement of Social Justice: Re-Grounding in Universal Human Life Goods
- Recognising the Human Vocation Above All
- Right of Access to Universal Life Goods: The Missing Argument
- IV. THE UNIVERSAL HUMAN LIFE NECESSITIES: THE LIFE GROUND OF ECONOMICS AND HUMAN RIGHTS DEFINED
- Blocking Out Life Necessity: The Compulsion of High Theory
- The Universal Life Needs and Goods: Explaining the Base of All Rights and Obligations
- Beyond the Invisible Hand: Naming Humanity’s Universal Life Necessities and Goods
- How to Test the Universal Life Goods and Necessities for Validity
- Sufficiency and Insufficiency of Provision Recognised by Life Capacity Margins
- Thinking Through “From Each According to Ability, To Each According to Needs”
- V. RECOVERING THE BASES OF OUR LIVES FROM SILENCE AND OCCUPATION: THE HUMAN VOCATION, THE CIVIL COMMONS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
- Being Human: Why We Must Work for Our Own Life Good and Others’ at the Same Time
- The Civil Commons: Real Economic Base and Social Correlative of the Human Vocation
- The Corporate-Rich War on Civil Commons to Expropriate and Degrade Them for Profit
- From Commons-Blind Theory on Both Sides of Class Division to Life-Goods Economy and Justice.
- Regaining the Lost Bearings of Civil Commons as First Premise of Human Evolution
- From Corporate State versus Social State to Life-Coherent Rationality
- VI. EVOLVED CIVIL COMMONS VERSUS CORPORATE GLOBALIZATION: A PERFORMANCE EVALUATION ACROSS UNIVERSAL LIFE GOODS
- Re-Setting to the Common Life-Ground of Our Existence
- Economic Advance and Social Justice Both Decided by Universal Provision of Life Goods
- Atmospheric Goods
- Bodily Goods
- Home and Habitat Goods
- Environmental Integrity
- Life-Protective Goods of Security and Healthcare
- Cultural Life Goods
- The Good of Human Vocation
- VII: WHY CONTEMPORARY JUSTICE THEORY FAILS: THE MISSING COMMON INTEREST OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND REASON
- Abstracting Away Everything that Ultimately Matters: Mapping High Theory’s Correspondence to the Life-Blind Ruling System
- G.A. Cohen’s Egalitarian Rescue Remains Within the Ruling Alibi as First Premise
- Economic Science and Pareto Optimum/Efficiency Unmasked in Principle
- Rawlsian Justice as Trickle-Down Myth in Formal Costume
- VIII. BEYOND EQUIVOCAL EQUALITY AND MASKING MYTHS: GROUNDING JUSTICE IN WHAT WE ALL NEED TO LIVE AS HUMAN
- From Rational Plan of Life to Human Vocation: The Ultimate Moral Regrounding
- Life-Ground Ethics Rejects a Career Plan as a Universal Good of Justice or Morality
- Linking Life Right and Obligation at System-Wide and Historical Levels
- The Life-Coherence Principle, Civil Commons, and the Human Vocation
- IX. REGAINING THE REAL ECONOMY FROM THE CANCER SYSTEM: THE CHOICE SPACE FOR HUMANITY’S EVOLUTION OR DESTRUCTION
- Evolution of Humanity by Rules of Life-Enabling Economy and Justice
- Progressive or Regressive Meta Pattern of History?
- The Corporate-State War Against Human Evolution
- Recovering the Real Economy in Principle and Fact
- X. THE SOCIAL STATE VERSUS THE CORPORATE STATE: FROM EUROPEAN FASCISM TO GLOBAL MONEY-SEQUENCE ABSOLUTISM
- Social State Evolution versus Corporate State Growth: The Battle Lines Defined
- From the Depression, Anti-Fascist War and Decolonisation to the Corporate Occupation
- The Morality of Corporate Rights: No Rights Except for Private Money Sequences
- Social Justice and Economic Integrity: The Life Code in Social Defence
- XI. THE LIFE-AND-DEATH WAR OF RIGHTS SYSTEMS DEFINED
- Defining the Global Corporate Mechanism in Formal Terms
- The Age-Old Life Economy of the Civil Commons versus the Corporate-Rights System
- Holding and Advancing the Life-Ground of Resistance: Clarifying the Civil Commons of Economic and Human Rights Around and Under Us
- Beyond Amnesiac Despair: The Life Economy and Human Rights Base Already Won
- The Real Private Sector is the Opposite of Global Corporate For Profit
- XII. HUMANITY’S EVOLUTION AND THE GREAT REVERSAL: AN ANATOMY OF THE CORPORATE RIGHT COUNTER-REVOLUTION
- Getting Our Historical Bearings in the Turning-Point Time
- The Great Reversal
- The Historic Choice Today
- XIII. HISTORY’S LONG WAR FOR LIBERATION: RECLAIMING THE LIFE RIGHTS WHICH HAVE BEEN WON
- The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Societies’ Life Rights Against Corporate Fascism Across Borders
- Resolving Confusions of Meaning to See the Historical Pattern Across Generational Time
- Reclaiming and Moving Beyond the Human Life Rights That Have Already Been Won.
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