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International Journal of Advanced Multidisciplinary Research and Studies

Volume 3, Issue 1, 2023

Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights



Author(s): Ali Omar Forozish

Abstract:

Human Rights are a set of moral norms and political concepts defined to make a holistic consensus on a general ethical principle, treatment patterns and protect individuals and groups from social and political abuses. This phenomenon is known as the shield and the protector of the human virtue, human dignity and the essence of humanity in the modern era. Even though human rights found an international consensus in the context of Universal Declaration of Human Rights, matriculated by the Third United Nations General Assembly in 1948, and equipped the national and international laws with a general and universal framework, its philosophical genealogy and conceptual historic background is rooted in the Western political history. To succinct, this text multi-factionalizes the scope of analysis of human rights. It approbates the universality of human kind from a political perspective, accounting the human rights as a political modern phenomena and traces and infers its roots in the texts of the 1776 American Declaration of Independence, the 1789 French Declaration of Rights of Man and the Citizens and in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Furthermore, it ratiocinates human rights as a historical progressive notion, and repudiate its essence underlying a metaphysical construction.


Keywords: Human Rights, Natural Law, Enlightenment Era, Universality

Pages: 425-429

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