The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights

The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights by Rachel Hall Sternberg
English | July 13, 2021 | ISBN: 1477322914 | True PDF | 184 pages | 15.3 MB
Although the era of the Enlightenment witnessed the rise of philosophical debates around benevolent social practice, the origins of European humane discourse date further back, to Classical Athens. The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights analyzes the parallel confluences of cultural factors facing ancient Greeks and eighteenth-century Europeans that facilitated the creation and transmission of humane values across history. Rachel Hall Sternberg argues that precursors to the concept of human rights exist in the ancient articulation of emotion, though the ancient Greeks, much like eighteenth-century European societies, often failed to live up to those values.