Universal Human Rights? Historical and Contemporary Comments

The concept of human rights, supposedly of universal importance, is usually derived from the tradition referred to as “Western”. Although the “classic approaches” – Greek, Roman and Christian, refer to the norms of natural law, making them the basis or limits of the rights of individuals, in modern...

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Autor principal:	Bogdan Szlachta
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Lenguaje:	EN PL
Publicado:	Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing 2021
Materias:	natural law law of nature natural rights human rights Law K Political science J
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:964a4e4fe5f54c2bb563e4877f75e1b32021-11-27T13:11:21ZUniversal Human Rights? Historical and Contemporary Comments10.12797/Politeja.18.2021.71.011733-67162391-6737https://doaj.org/article/964a4e4fe5f54c2bb563e4877f75e1b32021-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.akademicka.pl/politeja/article/view/3707https://doaj.org/toc/1733-6716https://doaj.org/toc/2391-6737 The concept of human rights, supposedly of universal importance, is usually derived from the tradition referred to as “Western”. Although the “classic approaches” – Greek, Roman and Christian, refer to the norms of natural law, making them the basis or limits of the rights of individuals, in modern approaches the relation is reserved, in the manner that rights become primary to norms. Although liberals of the 17th and 18th centuries consider the law of nature as a tool for their protection, starting from the 19th century, the rights (already called human rights) have been increasingly perceived as positive abilities to articulate own, subjective preferences of individuals. This evolution needs to be accounted for in the studies carried out by representatives of various cultures, since the comprehension of an individual (and even a “human person”) as an essentially culturally unconditioned one, is its ineradicable element. Bogdan SzlachtaKsiegarnia Akademicka Publishingarticlenatural lawlaw of naturenatural rightshuman rightsLawKPolitical scienceJENPLPoliteja, Vol 18, Iss 2(71) (2021)
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description	The concept of human rights, supposedly of universal importance, is usually derived from the tradition referred to as “Western”. Although the “classic approaches” – Greek, Roman and Christian, refer to the norms of natural law, making them the basis or limits of the rights of individuals, in modern approaches the relation is reserved, in the manner that rights become primary to norms. Although liberals of the 17th and 18th centuries consider the law of nature as a tool for their protection, starting from the 19th century, the rights (already called human rights) have been increasingly perceived as positive abilities to articulate own, subjective preferences of individuals. This evolution needs to be accounted for in the studies carried out by representatives of various cultures, since the comprehension of an individual (and even a “human person”) as an essentially culturally unconditioned one, is its ineradicable element.
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Universal Human Rights? Historical and Contemporary Comments

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