Assignment 04: The Last Utopia
Human right has been taken to mean something different by many people. In fact, once they come across this word then they think of political ideas and moral principles. Ideally, it is more than this as it is going to be espoused later on. The right of man and human right basically are two different terms with distinct means and therefore these differences will be clearly espoused. As a matter of fact, they basically have a lot of disconnect in terms of historical universalism with each basically committed to the fact that every person is part of the moral group.
Indeed, in chapter one of Samuel Moyn’s work, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History has absolutely talked about the two concepts i.e. the right of man and human right. These two concepts have been clearly differentiated and I think the deference is as follows; in regards to the rights of man, it was universally agreed in the universal declaration that, these rights were basically to be achieved through what is called the construction of space citizenship in which rights were protected and accorded. In fact, these spaces not only contested the denial of the rights that were already established but also were zones of citizenship struggle.
On the other hand, human rights in particular after 1945, actually did not establish any comparable space but the most central event that could be talked about under this is ideally the recasting of the rights as indeed entitlements that might basically refute the state of nation’s sovereignty from outside and above rather than basically serving its foundations. As obviously indicated, in the right of man ideally there must be a space of citizenship and therefore talking about human right has nothing that can be compared to this particular space and this is the fundamental different between the two.
Another fundamental thing that should be known about human right is the fact that, it does not at all focus on individualistic achievement but rather it when the society begins to protect the values as indicated in the revolutionary declaration. On the other hand, talking about right of man it is rather a very specific thing, I mean it focuses on individualistic achievement and in this case men. Basically, this should be able to manifest the wide disconnect between the two terms and as the words suggests, the right of man, meaning the rights of a man an individual and unlike human right which is a term that mean much more things beyond just a man.
