HUMAN RIGHTS IN THEORETICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL SENSES

Year 2014, Issue: 18, 189 - 204, 01.12.2014

Dilek Yigit

Abstract

This essay aims to shed light on how the definition of human rights in theoretical and philosophical senses has been given and certain conceptual problems arising from different perceptions taken to define what human rights are and to identify to whom human rights belong. In analysing the concept of human rights in theoretical and philosophical senses, the historical approach is followed in the article given that historical approach demonstrates how the concept of human rights has gone beyond theoretical and philosophical debates and become legal and political issues and internationalised over time

Keywords

the concept of human rights, natural law, legal positivism, internationalisation of human rights

HUMAN RIGHTS IN THEORETICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL SENSES

Abstract

Bu makalenin amacı, tarih boyunca insan hakları kavramının teorik ve felsefi açıdan nasıl tanımlandığına ve insan hakları kavramının tanımını etkileyen farklı bakış açılarından kaynaklanan kavramsal sorunlara kısaca ışık tutabilmektir. İnsan hakları uygulamalarını konu almayan bu makalede, insan hakları kavramının zamanla teorik ve felsefi tartışma konusu olmaktan çıkarak politik ve hukuki mesele haline dönüştüğünü gösterebilmek açısından tarihsel perspektif benimsenmiştir

Keywords

insan hakları kavramı, doğal hukuk, legal pozitivizm, insan haklarının uluslararasılaşması

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