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Locke, Hobbes, and the UD: Comment on van Dun

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07/30/2014Paul Gottfried

Frank van Dun, in his learned essay on the Hobbesian roots of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UD), passed by the UN General Assembly in December 1948, presents arguments that need to be assessed.

Volume 16, Number 3 (2002)

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Paul Gottfried is an American political theorist and intellectual historian. He is the former Horace Raffensperger Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, and editor in chief of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture.

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Gottfried, Paul. "Locke, Hobbes, and the UD: Comment on Van Dun." Journal of Libertarian Studies 16, No. 3 (2002): 83–87.