A presebtation I made in the very first year of my university life. A brief summary of human rights.

1. Human Rights
Special Features
Human Rights fall more
in the domain of political
theory than the domain
of modern theory

2. Presented By :
Tanvir Ishraque Taque
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3. What is Human Rights?
•Human Rights are literally the rights that one has
because one is human.
•Human rights are the basic rights and freedoms
that belong to every person in the world, from birth
until death.
•The idea of Human Rights is that each one of us no
matter who we are or where we are born, is
entitled to the same basic rights and freedoms.

5. Slavery Child Labor

6. Women
Rights Racis
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7. Gender
Discrimination

8. Genocid
e Ethnic
Cleansing

11. Abuse Freedom of Religion

13. Special features of Human Rights
•Human rights are norms that help to protect all
people everywhere from severe political, legal,
and social abuses.
•Human rights also are inalienable rights: one
cannot stop being human, no matter how badly one
behaves or how barbarously one is treated.
•They are universal rights, in the sense that today
we consider all members of the species Homo
sapiens “human beings” and thus holders of

14. Moral Theory of Human Rights
Moral Theory of Human Rights
• Aims and Methods of Moral Philosophy
• Good Will
• Moral Worth
• Acting from Duty
• Categorical Imperative
• Utilitarianism
• Rationalism

15. Political Theory of human Rights
• Emphasize on Political Institutions
• Legitimacy
• Liberty
• Justification
• Critique
• Focusing on Economy

16. Do Human Rights fall more in the domain of
political theory than the domain of modern
theory?
The common classification of moral theories, however, tells us
little about human rights, which have played a vanishingly small
part in the history of Western moral theory, even during the
modern era. For example, rights play no significant role in Kant’s
Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals . For utilitarians, rights
are only second-order rules that save us the (often
considerable) task of calculating utilities in particular cases.
Although we might in principle imagine rights-based moral
theories, in practice such a category has historically been
largely an empty one. Human rights logically may be, but in fact

17. When we turn to political theory, however, human rights often
become central. For example, in part 1 of Kant’s
“Theory and Practice” (1983 [1793]), which deals with individual
morality, rights make no significant appearance, but rights
(entitlements) become central in part 2, which treats “political
right.” In fact, Kant’s contractarian political theory is centered
on the rights we have as human beings, as subjects, and as
citizens. More generally, human rights are at the heart, and a
defining feature, of contractarian political theories. And other
political theories may endorse a human rights standard of
political legitimacy by other routes.

18. Th e loose and weak link between human rights and leading moral theories is an attraction rather than a
drawback, allowing for a considerable degree of political consensus despite moral divergences. By remaining
open to many egalitarian moral and political theories, human rights may allow us to handle certain questions of
political justice and right while circumventing diffi cult and usually inconclusive disputes over moral foundations.
The loose and weak link between human rights and leading
moral theories is an attraction rather than a drawback, allowing
for a considerable degree of political consensus despite moral
divergences. By remaining open to many egalitarian moral and
political theories, human rights may allow us to handle certain
questions of political justice and right while circumventing
difficult and usually inconclusive disputes over moral
foundations.
Therefore, we shall be concerned with the political, rather than
moral, theory of human rights. Internationally recognized human
rights today provide a standard of political legitimacy. In the
contemporary world—the world in which there is an overlapping
consensus on the Universal Declaration model—states are

19. THANKS TO ALL