In this book my goal has been to rethink the subject of human rights so as to enable it to survive the challenges to its integrity, indeed to its very existence, that have emerged off the back of its recent, great success. Coping with the three crises that I discuss in chapters 2 to 4 has been central to this project. Successfully steering our way past these encounters with authority, with legalism and with national security has meant than now, as this book nears its end, we are ready to resume our human rights journey, but with greater confidence than in the past about where we are going and with a better sense also of the pitfalls that need to be avoided in future. The key point has been to recognise what at its core our subject is about, what the essence is from which all else flows. We have seen that at its heart, the idea of human rights is two-dimensional. There is the absolute side – the moral wrongness of cruelty and humiliation, and there is also the – perhaps less clear but nevertheless essential – dedication to human flourishing. The two are linked in that each flows from a commitment to human dignity, which is in turn manifested in acts of compassion towards the other. In its prohibitory form, this demands that we do not degrade our fellow humans by depersonalising them. The positive side. stressing growth and personal success, sees human rights as radically pluralist in the hospitality towards others – rather than mere tolerance of them – that its underlying ethic demands.