Some Reflections on the Rights of Man
Some Reflections on the Rights of Man
Author(s): Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Subject(s): Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Philosophy of Law
Published by: CEEOL Digital Reproductions / Collections
Summary/Abstract: As first expressed, in 1789, the rights of man were mainly an assertion of the desire for individual independence. ‘All for the individual within Society,’ implying that the ‘human species’ was created in order to expand and culminate in a multiplicity of units which would each, in isolation, reach their maximum development. This would seem to have been the principal concern and ideal of the eighteenth century humanitarians.
Book: HUMAN RIGHTS - Comments and Interpretations. A Symposium edited by UNESCO
- Page Range: 105-107
- Page Count: 3
- Publication Year: 1949
- Language: English
- Content File-PDF
