Human Rights

            Human rights are believed to be the greatest ethical yardstick that is used in measuring of the government or people’s treatment towards other people. Over the years there has been heated philosophical debate within the colonials and the Europeans descendants. Their argument over the decade was aimed at searching for a moral standard majorly for political organizations and the character that is independent of the contemporary community. Some of the people argue that these human rights are regarded as right or wrong basing on the rules governing that community. This has therefore resulted to fierce debates amongst different political philosophers. A path was established by successive philosophers who lead to the contemporary human rights while another path was established by the philosophers who opposed the human rights. The development of the human rights from natural rights came up with a lot of opposition from other philosophers and it is from the seeds and arguments made by previous philosophers that the contemporary philosophers are building their concepts from.

            H.Gene Blocker, a philosopher came after other pre-modern philosophers such as Aristotle and Plato, and from the modern philosophers such as Hobbes and Locke. He however borrowed some ideas from these philosophers and thus his ideas are an evolution of other philosophers’ line of thought (Blocker 1999). According to H. Gene, he argues out that all humans enjoy an inalienable right that is the natural human rights. He states that the most significant historical sources of his ideas have its foundation from the primordial notions of the natural law and human rights.

 The ideas evolved from the pre-modern to medieval to modern philosophers ideas to the United Nations declaration of human rights to the non-human rights on animals, organization and state to the governments’ rights to entities and to the universal human rights. These universal human rights have basically turned out to be the de facto universal standard to which leaders of the nation at least pay lip service.

            These sources are reflected in the contemporary culture in that, those sources frame as well as form the current or modern government system. While the citizens are entitled to enjoy as well as live the rights of life, freedom, property, justice and equality. These human rights are supported basing on reason and are considered as legal rights within the boundary of national or universal law (Blocker 1999). The formation of the government was important as it ensured that the humans’ rights or human absolute rights proposed by H. Genes are respected. This is because there exists some small proportion of citizens who basically live within the limits of the natural laws but they however pose threat to other citizens’ freedom. The challenge with these human rights is that there is no exact nonfigurative concept of what creates the universal human rights and how these human rights can be respected by all humanity. Another challenge is there is no clear outline of who should ensure that those universal human rights are properly guarded or enforced and protected. It is thus evident that these sources reflected in our current world society are reflected to some societies and not others for instance, respecting the universal human rights over others.

 

            Some of the documents such as the novels that were written earlier on in history such as the novel that has information and concepts of the philosophers laid a foundation for the acceptance of the universal human rights as the readers empathize with the characters in the novel unlike themselves. This has therefore led to the modern acceptance of the universal human rights and respect awarded to these rights. Other documents are accessible to every individual as they contain the declarations of human rights as well as declaration of liberty. It is thus important to note that the documents that a country has on the universal human rights from the ancient philosophers are safely kept and protected in the archives and museums for all humanity and not limited to those nations’ citizens but to all who want to have a look at them (Ishay 2008). This therefore has led the modern world to be knowledgeable and to be able to relate with our ancient philosophers hence people are able to accept and respect these human rights since they know what they are and how they work. Newspapers that were published in the First World War, treaties and the inaugural records of the speeches made are largely important in the contemporary world as they enable us to relate to the earlier times and be able to make a better today and tomorrow from the various developments of human rights (Ishay 2008). However, these writing are not identical over those years but they possess some similarities and a development of an idea.

 

 

 

References

 Blocker, H. G. (1999). World philosophy: An East-West comparative introduction to       philosophy. Upper             Saddle River, N.J: Prentice Hall.

Ishay, M. R. (2008). The history of human rights: From ancient times to the globalization era.     Berkeley,             Calif. [u.a.: Univ. of California Press.