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It does not merely prescribe what is to be done and what not to be done; it also recognizes rights; in particular, rights linked to the human person |
Natural Law |
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Necessarily implies the law of justice- to give to each one his due |
Natural Law |
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Are due to a man precisely because he is a person, and therefore, possessing worth and dignity |
Rights |
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Is not merely a piece of matter, a robot, a tool or a bundle of drives, or a meaningless question mark as some philosophers would reduce him to. |
Man |
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From this viewpoint, man is an infinite value because he is made to the image and likeliness of God, being endowed with an immortal soul destined for everlasting life with God |
Christian viewpoint |
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They condemned the document of the declaration of the rights of man as harmful, inexpedient and as bad politics. |
Burke, Taine, etc. |
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According to them, the rights of man were drawn up by metaphysicians for an abstract pattern of man. |
Burke, Taine, etc |
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Attempt to assert onternal unvarying truths about human beings and to erect these truths into law. |
Metaphysicians |
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"The essence of human personality is obedience; man has no rights." And he was merely expressing what dictators of totalitarian states believe and put into practice |
Napoleon |
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Based on the essence of the human person or human nature, ehich being universal and transcenddental is nothing else but non-sensical metaphysical abstractions to the positivist or negativist. |
Rights |
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Found in all men |
Universal |
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Transcending individual and accidental qualities |
Transcendental |
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Not confined to the realm of the physical or material |
Reality |
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Greatest thing in the world |
Love |
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Embidied in the UN charter approved by all nations as the basic foundation of world peace |
Universal declaration of human rights |
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Anything due to a person. It is a moral power residing to a person, in virtue whereof he refers himself as well as his own actions as also other things, which stand referred to him in preference to other persons |
Right |
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Virtue of which, a man calls anything his own |
Right |
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Is a moral power as distinguished from physical force or ability |
Right |
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He deprived of all power and condemned to die |
Righteous man |
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Has power over the good he has stolen, but he has no right or authority over them |
Gangster |
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The purpose of the state is merely to serve the individual, to preserve and serve individual rights |
Anarchistic liberalism |
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Individuals have no rights before the state |
State absolutism |
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Author of the book Man and the State . |
Maritain |
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"Unlimited individual rights make all good government impossible and often lead in the end to the ascendency of one man or a party who exercises the authority of government and takes all rights away, as in dictatorship. " |
Randal |