DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Romanticism, Immanuel Kant, Positive Law
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Human rights are defined as: rights that every person has, by virtue of merely existing and, that aim to secure for such a person certain benefits or freedoms that are of fundamental importance to any human being. Law before human rights: a set of rules laid down by an authority that people are legally obligated to comply with. Constitutional fundamental rights and human rights are roughly equivalent because they have the same function: to protect the basic interests or freedoms of all human beings. 12. 2 the historical development of the idea of human rights. Human rights originate from the natural law tradition. The second world war sparked a renewed interest in the idea that there are universally applicable moral limits to what states are allowed to do with their subjects. Such renewed interest in human rights found expression at the global, regional and domestic levels: global developments, protection of human rights became a key concern of the united nations.
