Assignment 04
In the Last Utopia by Samuel Moyn, the first chapter covers many important points to make the readers understand how human rights and rights of men emerge. To understand much better his argument and extremely informative first chapter and whole book, he gave us the history of human rights, talked about important philosophers, and theorists who played a big role when writing and giving ideas about rights of man. As I was reading the first chapter I notice how rules and meaning of these two terms has changed throughout history. My understanding is that there was a cause and effect. In other words, the rights of men weren’t a specific or fair for all individuals, so, Human Rights was invented to protect citizens from unfair situations and with the purpose of having freedom. Human rights offer hope and inspiration to take action in any adequate situation. Moyn doesn’t really define what human rights means or what he believes it is. However, he does define what human rights means in different times and places he is very detailed about how things happened in history. The right of men and human rights are two very different things. Moyn’s demonstrates the concept of human rights which, becomes more significant in the 1970s and was more focused on political and civil rights. Social and economic was put as a second-regeneration principles. Rights of men was during the Revolutionary era (p.34), exemplify by the political of the states basically saying it was created by the government. The rights of man were written by all male philosophers and everything was written to benefit all man in society with the outcome of revolution. Then, he shows the enlightenment theorist influence, well they came up with these ideas from Ancient Greece and Rome, and other religions to invent a new form of human rights. Human rights go more towards to individual rights against unconstitutional situations, this also means that human go against the unfairness of the state. Throughout history man and women has always being separated, meaning all man are superior in all situation. something that is changing each day is how women are included in the same group man are. In conclusion, Samuel Myon gives us a very detail history of human rights, how they change, and the different definition it took in different times and places. He also says that human rights were more significant in the 1970s. Human rights and rights of man have different purpose.
