Law 3101A/B Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Stoicism, Welfare Rights, Equality Of Outcome
26 Oct 2018
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Human rights may be defined as rights that every person has by virtue or merely existing, and the aim to secure for such a person certain benefits or freedoms that are of fundamental importance to any human being. Moralised law: for it to be valid, a law must be laid down but also sufficiently respect and promote fundamental interests of human beings. History: human rights can trace they"re beginning at the stoics of ancient greece and rome philosophers such as thomas. The way of thinking was based on the idea that in nature there is an inbuilt order of things. Natural law was believed to be common ground for different cultures and religions. With the advent of the scientific world nature plays a minor role. 1789 us was the first country to adopt a legally enforceable constitution, with a list of basic rights. Romanticism undermined the modern variant of natural law.
