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ARE HUMAN RIGHTS THE ‟LAST UTOPIAˮ?

Sayı: 20 1 Aralık 2015
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ARE HUMAN RIGHTS THE ‟LAST UTOPIAˮ?

Abstract

Samuel Moyn’s ‘The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History 2010 ’ is one of the most valuable and controversial contributions to human rights of the last decade. In this wide-ranging and critical book, Samuel Moyn, a professor of history at Columbia University, takes a different view that human rights are a relatively new invention. He draws a sharp distinction between the modern concept of human rights and older claims of rights, such as the rights of man from the Enlightenment and the revolutionary period. Moyn regards modern international human rights, in particular Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as ‘the last utopia’, which emerged in an age when other, previously more appealing utopias, died. By analysing Samuel Moyn’s arguments, this paper attempts to address the question of whether modern human rights are the '’last utopia’' or not. In order to answer this question, this paper aims to discuss relevant historical and contemporary examples

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Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Felsefe

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yazarlar

Yayımlanma Tarihi

1 Aralık 2015

Gönderilme Tarihi

1 Ocak 2015

Kabul Tarihi

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Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2015 Sayı: 20

Kaynak Göster

Chicago
Akyuz, Emrah. 2015. “ARE HUMAN RIGHTS THE ‟LAST UTOPIAˮ?”. FLSF Felsefe ve Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, sy 20: 181-90. https://izlik.org/JA36PX77NS.

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