Relationship between different Categories of Human Rights
Relationship between different Categories of Human Rights

Author(s): Quincy Wright
Subject(s): International Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Published by: CEEOL Digital Reproductions / Collections
Summary/Abstract: Human rights suggest rights which are alike for all human beings. Yet it is recognised that much of human nature is a product of the particular culture in which the individual has developed. Consequently, if all men have something in common which might provide the basis for a universal bill of human rights, it must reside either in common biological, psychological, or spiritual characteristics which persist in spite of cultural differences, or in those common elements of the many cultures which may be regarded as a world culture. The approach to human rights may, therefore, proceed from the analysis of the individual short of all culture, the seventeenth century concept of the ‘state-of-nature,’ or from the analysis of world culture to be found by abstracting those common elements in all cultures.

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