HUMAN RIGHTS TODAY REPRESENT THE MOST IMPORTANT SYSTEM OF UNIVERSAL VALUES THAT SHOULD BE USED AS A COMMON NORMATIVE BASIS
April 6th, 2014 by Claudio Schuftan
Food for a spreading thought
Human Rights Reader 336
In political terms, the birth of human rights was a non-trivial achievement. The human rights principles about development have now become a firm part of the framework of the modern study of social systems.
1. Human rights (HR) give us the intellectual strength to defend what we do and what we believe-in, as well as giving us tools on how to hold and defend those beliefs. Therefore, criticism and argumentation are part of the HR discourse. As such, HR do not really intend to pull us away from our lives; they rather enlighten our lives. (R.C. Solomon)/.../
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