Saturday, January 23, 2016

Natural Right, Divine Right, Human Right

The term 'natural right' has been a misnomer, since what it connotes is actually a universalization of the 'divine right of Kings.  Likewise, the variation, 'rights of man', is still associated with a divine origin, even if ambiguously so, e. g. in the U. S. Constitution.  In contrast, the 20th-century descendant of the concept, Human Rights, proposed by the United Nations, is completely secularized.  Instead of a deity, the foundation of what is granted is, as the term suggests, the Species, and, is, thus, an indication of the correlation between Globalization and Species-Being.

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