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Oct 7, 2019 · Traditions of human rights have given rise over time not only to irreducible ways of thinking about human rights generally, but also to significant differences in what counts as a right or how rights should be enforced.
Jan 1, 2014 · Recourse to the concept of human nature has always played a prominent role in the justification and defense of human rights. The idea has its roots in ancient philosophy and in religious traditions and also extends to early modern natural rights thinking.
- Marion Albers, Thomas Hoffmann, Jörn Reinhardt
- 2014
In a further extension of the natural rights tradition, human rights are now often viewed as arising essentially from the nature of humankind itself. The idea that all humans possess human rights simply by existing and that these rights cannot be taken away from them are direct descendants of natural rights.
Jan 11, 2013 · In countries around the world, Human Rights Watch has documented how discriminatory elements of traditions and customs have impeded, rather than enhanced, people’s social, political, civil,...
"human tradition" take practical shape, and that just as political rights are embedded in a political tradition so also human rights have to be based on a human tradition.
Sep 23, 2023 · In short: MacIntyre thinks that the notion of human or natural rights is inextricably intertwined with liberalism’s conceptions of the self, community and human agency, and even though he has had a significant philosophical evolution, the philosophical traditions in which he claimed or claims to be inserted are all inimical to that conception of...
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Feb 7, 2003 · Human rights are norms that aspire to protect all people everywhere from severe political, legal, and social abuses. Examples of human rights are the right to freedom of religion, the right to a fair trial when charged with a crime, the right not to be tortured, and the right to education.
