The Theory Of Human Rights

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

Scout Finch lives in Maycomb, Alabama, in the 1930’s. She lives with her brother, Jem, and her father, Atticus. Scout is telling the stories of her childhood from some point in the future. Scout has many experiences that shape her maturity and her outlook on society. In their early childhood, Scout and her brother Jem, along with mutual friend Dill, spend a lot of time together and understand each other. They all have interest in a mysterious neighbor named Boo Radley. Scout at first believes Boo to be a cruel, evil monster and much time is spent between the three discussing Boo and his reasons for staying inside the house all day. The Finches lives’ are pretty ordinary until Atticus is selected to defend a black man in court. The man is named

Many new ideas were introduced during the Enlightenment, an intellectual movement that started in the mid-17th century. One of the philosophical ideas that was further developed during the time was the idea of human rights. The philosophers proposed the idea that all people are born with certain rights no matter their race, religion, or socioeconomic status. These ideas have continued to be developed overtime to become what the definition of human rights is today. One example of a violation of human rights was in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in the 1950s and 1960s.

“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

Miller never missed a chance to illustrate how these characters are angry to aid the reader to have contact with their psychological state. He is always present shedding the light on how each statement is a result of inner looming anger. Direct descriptions about anger were used for instance" there is blood in his eyes" (48), and how some talked "with burning fury" (68). So anger was a part of the feelings expressed through the language. Miller's description helps in putting the speeches in their full circumstances whether the social context or the emotional side.

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.

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.

“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.

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

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

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