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• 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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