This book is an extensive and intensive refinement of the unified utilitarian theory (UUT) first proposed by the author in 1991. It is extensive in that UUT is not restricted to be an ethical theory,
自從〈聯合國憲章〉(the United Nations Charter)以及〈國際人權宣言〉(the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)在一九四五年和一九四八年通過之後,在這近半世紀中,一套包羅萬象且含括許多國際機制(international instruments)的國際人權法被創造了出來。本書的主要目標是對人權概念架構的分析和呈現,以及被國際接納且