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Cover
Title Page
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Contents
Preface to the New English Edition
I Critique of the Declaration of the Rights of Man
II Market Freedoms Prefigure but Negate Human Freedoms
III There Are No Rights Already Won, Only Rights Yet to Be Won
IV From Rights without Duties to the Creation of an Art of Living
V The Rights
Article 1. All human beings have the right to become human and to be treated as such
Article 2. All human beings have the right to life
Article 3. All human being have the right to independence
Article 4. All human beings have the right to knowledge
Article 5. All human beings have the right to happiness
Article 6. All human beings have the right to dispose freely of their time
Article 7. All human beings have the right to move wherever and however they see fit
Article 8. All human beings have the right of free access to the necessities of life
Article 8a. All human beings have the right to a home in keeping with their desires
Article 8b. All human beings have the right to healthy, natural food
Article 8c. All human beings have the right to health
Article 8d. All human beings have the right to comfort and luxury
Article 8e. All human beings have the right to free modes of transport set up by and for the community
Article 8f. All human beings have the right to the free use of natural resources and natural energy
Article 9. All human beings have the right to permanent control over scientific experimentation so as to ensure that it serves human beings and not commodities
Article 10. All human beings have the right to take pleasure in themselves, in others, and in the world
Article 10a(i). All human beings have the right to self-unification
Article 10a(ii). All human beings have the right to be themselves and to cultivate awareness of their own uniqueness
Article 10a(iii). All human beings have the right to authenticity
Article 10b(i). All human beings have the right to join forces with their fellows
Article 10b(ii). All human beings have the right to join together on the basis of affinity
Article 10b(iii). All human beings have the right to replace State governments with a world federation of small local communities where individual excellence will ensure the humanity of social life
Article 10c. All human beings have the right to an alliance with nature
Article 10d. All human beings have the right to reconciliation with their animal nature
Article 11. All human beings have the right to construct their own destiny
Article 12. All human beings have the right to creation and self-creation
Article 13. All human beings have the right to interfere and intervene wherever human progress is under threat
Article 14. All human beings have the right to steer toward life what is directed toward death
Article 15. All human beings have the right to improve their environment for the sake of a better life
Article 16. All human beings have the right to consideration for their sensitivities
Article 17. All human beings have the right to feel the movements of affection and disaffection inherent in the flux of the passions and the freedom of love
Article 18. All human beings have the right to a natural life and a natural death
Article 19. All human beings have the right to base the diversity of their desires on the multifariousness of life
Article 20. All human beings have the right to choose activity or repose
Article 21. All human beings have the right to be idle
Article 22. All human beings have the right to exert effort and to persevere
Article 23. All human beings have the right to a personal sense of beauty
Article 24. All human beings have the right to progress and to regress
Article 25. All human beings have the right to stray, to get lost and to find themselves
Article 26. All human beings have the right to vanquish terror and tame fear
Article 27. All human beings have the right to defy threats
Article 28. All human beings have the right to make mistakes and to correct them
Article 29. All human beings have the right to absolute freedom of opinion and expression
Article 30. All human beings have the right to criticise and contradict what seems most certain or passes for a fundamental truth
Article 31. All human beings have the right to hold nothing sacred
Article 32. All human beings have the right to change
Article 33. All human beings have the right to take their distance
Article 34. All human beings have the right to the pleasures of each stage of life
Article 35. All human beings have the right to reject suffering
Article 36. All human beings have the right to give and to give themselves without self-sacrifice
Article 37. All human beings have the right to escape frustration by replacing dissatisfaction with insatiability
Article 38. All human beings have a right to their doubts and their certitudes
Article 39. All human beings have the right to excess and moderation
Article 40. All human beings have the right to enjoy themselves
Article 41. All human beings have the right to dream and imagine in freedom
Article 42. All human beings have the right to anger
Article 43. All human beings have the right to bodily wellbeing
Article 44. All human beings have the right to adorn themselves as they see fit
Article 45. All human beings have the right to their lies and their truths
Article 46. All human beings have the right to open themselves up to, or close themselves off from, the world
Article 47. All human beings have the right to express their emotions, desires and thoughts, or to keep silent about them
Article 48. All human beings have the right to artistic expression
Article 49. All human beings have the right to be kind
Article 50. All human beings have the right to innocence
Article 51. All human beings have the right to rely on the violence of the life forces to keep the violence of the death forces at bay
Article 52. All human beings have the right to restore to the will to live the vital energy usurped by the will to power
Article 53. All human beings have the right to protect and be protected
Article 54. All human beings have the right have children for their own happiness and that of their offspring
Article 55. All human beings have the right to desire what seems beyond the realm of the possible
Article 56. All human beings have the right to govern their own moods, whims and obsessions without having to impose them on others or having those of others imposed on them
Article 57. All human beings have the right to the poetry of existence
Article 58. All human beings have the right to play and the right to sport with the actions and values of the old world
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