The Theory Of Human Rights

Individual Rights are rights that a person has that include the freedom to think, act, work, and behave. Freedom of speech, the right to live, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and many more similar rights are rights that we have as individuals. It all started on December 10, 1948 when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted. Individual Rights provide us with freedom that cannot be interfered by no one including the government. The moral principle of the Individual Rights is “right” which symbolizing the freedom we each have. We hold the freedom of action meaning us as individuals get to do what we desire. Right shows a positive which is what we hold when we have the obligation of doing something.

In the 17th and 18th Century, a new age erupted in Europe that shaped the world and it’s ideas to this day, called the Enlightenment Period or the Age of Reason. During the Enlightenment Period, hundreds of individual ideas were expressed between philosophers as well as the citizens of England and France. Interestingly enough, most of these ideas seemed to share one central theme together. This theme was around individual freedoms that people can and should have, and the natural rights they should also hold. In these discussions of individual freedoms, sprouted innovative ideas regarding politics, economics, religion, and social rights.

Before the Enlightenment, every law and every decision was made and accepted, only by the King. There was a traditional social structure consisting of the monarchy on the top, followed by the nobles and clergy, and then all of the lower class on the bottom, which included peasants, merchants, and craftsman. When the people of the Western a Society began to receive ideas from Enlightenment scholars and thinkers, the began to realize how wrong the ways of the King were. They began to revolt against and disagree with these ways of the King. These people, motivated by the ideas of the Enlightenment, challenged the traditional social and political structures of the Western society to eventually lead to human rights for everyone.

The concept of individual rights refers to the freedom each individual possesses to pursue life without interference from other individuals or the government. A community is a collection of said individuals, with common interests and values, who take up community responsibilities to ensure that the collection holds objective standards that are beneficiary to all. Even though these concepts are intrinsically linked, in that one cannot survive without the other, there is often a desire to separate them and define where one ends and the other begins. Human social life can often be seen as a unity of two seemingly contradictory behavioral ideas: status competition and reciprocity. Status competition is the practice of striving to establish

“To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity” (Nelson Mandela). The Enlightenment encouraged many to break out of the chains of society and enter into a world of reason and thought. In the early 19th century, various countries and societies were experiencing revolutions, reforms and progress all in the name of independence and equality (American Revolution, French Revolution and more). Natural law and basic human rights were drilled into the masses and created an environment filled with freedom, rights and increasing intellectual influence. Nonetheless, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Enlightenment played a different role in political affairs around the world. What was once the most important topic around the world, now seems quite irrelevant. The world, in a sense, was done fighting for equality, but were now fighting for power and honor for their country. The Enlightenment, ultimately, led to nationalism, which caused various events to follow through. However, global society was mainly shaped by the ideas of other world, such as independence, religion, nationalism, war, communism/fascism, industrialization and education. Although, the enlightenment was the core of many movements, other world views overpowered and paved the way in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Inspired by the Renaissance, Humanism and Individualism, the Scientific Revolution, John Locke, and the Age of Discovery, and Religious Wars, the Enlightenment in Europe sparked a movement of change and progress. During the Enlightenment, humans were focused on improving their lives and letting go of or expanding on ancient texts that had set the previous standards. The Scientific Revolution was one event that provided a sturdy foundation to the Enlightenment by having solid evidence of things in the world being contrary to what everyone had thought for years. The proofs from the Revolution were a strong basis for progress in the Enlightenment. During the Enlightenment, the concept of unalienable rights was a hot topic, “Even if each man

The Enlightenment was the philosophical phenomenon of the eighteen century, which in spite of its declaration of independence from the thinking of the past, it comprised a great group of talented thinkers who indeed recognized the great debt owed to all their intellectual predecessors, such as Newton, Bacon, and John Locke, just to mention a few. The essence of its classic concerns were the dangers of arbitrary and unchecked authority, the value of religious toleration, and the overriding relevance of law, reason, and human dignity in all social affairs in their modern society. The Enlightenment writings shared several basic characteristics that are marked by a confidence in the power of human reasoning as an intrinsic self-assurance stemmed

This growing sentiment was primarily influenced new enlightenment philosophy and development of rational thought towards a defence of modern ‘human rights’ cultivated by philosophers who influenced the public ideas of morality.

I believe that any concept of human rights should include the right for individuals to think as they choose, the right for people to vote for their national leaders, and the right for people to have food and water to sustain themselves. Without these basic rights, I do not believe that it is possible for people to truly be free. However, with these rights at the top of the list of basic human rights, I believe that it is possible to achieve a world society in which all people are free and live in

The Enlightenment was a period of time when several ideas were spreading around Europe. And many of them made change to people’s way of thinking, some important ideas were: Natural Rights, the belief that people have the right to life, liberty, and to own property. The next one is the Social Contract, the Social Contract was an unwritten agreement to follow the law of the country and in turn, get protection from the country. With the introduction of the idea of Equal Rights, Enlightenment ideas were really starting to make sense. Some documents, such as the US Bill of Rights, The Declaration of the Rights of Man, and the Haitian Constitution will prove the importance of Natural Rights.

Glendon, Mary Ann (2002). A world made new: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Random House. ISBN

“To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity” (Nelson Mandela). The Enlightenment encouraged many to break out of the chains of society and enter into a world of reason and thought. In the early 19th century, various countries and societies were experiencing revolutions, reforms and progress all in the name of independence and equality (American Revolution, French Revolution and more). Natural law and basic human rights were drilled into the masses and created an environment filled with freedom, rights and increasing intellectual influence. However, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Enlightenment played a crucial yet a different key in political affairs around the world. The world, in a sense, was done fighting for equality, but were now fighting for power and honor for their country. The Enlightenment, ultimately, led to nationalism, which caused various events to follow through. Global society was mainly shaped by the ideas of the Enlightenment, such as natural laws, nationalism, industrialization/ capitalism and education.

The basic tenet of Human Rights is the understanding that all humans share universal aspirations and have inherent rights to security, dignity, freedom of expression, equality and economic, social and cultural protection regardless of geographic boundaries, nationality, gender, ethnic origin, language, religion or any other status. Human rights also include group rights such as self-determination and economic development. These rights are interrelated, interdependent and indivisible and are often expressed and guaranteed through national and international laws and agreements.

This essay will argue that human rights law is not completely of no assistance in dealing with homelessness. However, it will discuss its deficiencies in dealing with homelessness. It will focus on how the human Rights law influences decision making policies in protecting and preventing new range of homelessness, this will be discussed from the United Nations perspectives. It will also emphasize on the provisions and the influence of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) on the domestic law in relation to the issue of homelessness, likewise the emergence of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA), its effect in dealing with homelessness in the United Kingdom, with reference to the case law. This paper will also compare and elaborate on the effect of the anti-squatter legislation ‘Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012, (LASPO)’ to the Criminal law Act 1977. Moreover, it will analyse the effect of criminalisation of the squatters in our society and its contradiction to Human Rights law. The effect of the Human Rights law on public authorities will be discussed in relation to International Human Rights perspectives, i.e. the intervention of the United Nations in protecting the anti-homelessness legislations in various countries, as we see in United Kingdom, Australia and Hungary. It will finally conclude by acknowledge the facts that, although the Human Rights law in some aspects curtailed to a certain degree the escalation of homelessness by protecting

Our century is rich in the greatest discoveries in all fields of science and technology that had changed the quality of our lives. Perhaps one of the main branches of knowledge that will shape the world in the XXI century is genetics. That relatively young science has always been associated with lots of controversies and debates. That is, in my opinion, correlates with the course themes of Ideology and Inquiry, and secondly Origins and Politics of human rights. However, recent progression in genetics and genetic engineering have made it possible to change the very nature of the mankind, thus uprising many questions of ethical and philosophical nature. Personally speaking, in choosing the topic for the essay I were mainly interested