"Human Rights: Notion, Origin and Justification; Conflict of Human
Rights" (Lecturer: Prof. Vojin Dimitrijevic)
Human rights, as seen today, are relatively new
having emerged only in late 18th century. Their first signs can be
traced down in the Magna Carta or Great Charter, a precursor of
human rights the concept of which was nevertheless far from today's.
The rights in the Magna Carta were reserved for
the upper classes, the nobility. Some provisions of Tsar Dusan's law
also hint at today's perception of human rights.
For instance, its article providing that a court
of law shall try by the law. All these documents actually stand for
the rule of law, a big attainment, but do not stand for human
rights. |
