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The Bill of Rights: How has It Endured?

Robert Ginsberg discussed the philosophical character of natural rights and human rights as they are embodied in the United States Constitution and its fundamental amendments. He makes a case for going beyond the historical origin of those rights to their grounding as permanent, universal, and growing principles. Requires slide projector with remote and a screen. Adult audiences.

Robert Ginsberg is Professor of Philosophy at Penn State University. He is director of the International Center for the Arts, Humanities, and Value Inquiry, an independent scholarly organization. He earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, his B.A. and M.A. in Analysis of Ideas and Study of Methods at the University of Chicago, and was a Fulbright student at the University of Paris for two years.