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Christianity & Subjective Human Rights - Villey vs M: Maritain, the Catholic philosopher, who was involved in the writing of the United Nations’ Declaration, believed that a doctrine of individual rights is implicit in the Christian emphasis on the dignity of human personality. In contrast, another French scholar, Michel Villey, who studied the origins of “rights talk” in the late medieval period, held that while rights theories are derived from Christian morality, they are an aberration, a kind of deformed variety of Christian thought.

https://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=11-06-031-f&readcode=&readtherest=true#therest Christianity & Subjective Human Rights On the Fiftieth Anniversary of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) by  Peter Toon Far too many people around the world are treated inhumanely and even barbarously. In such contexts the message of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, issued fifty years ago by the newly formed United Nations, that “all human beings are born free, and equal in dignity and rights” needs to be heard again so that basic human rights—such as full recognition as a person before the law to equality before the law and equal protection of the law—are not only fought for but also implemented. In contrast, a “human rights industry” has developed in North America on the basis of the post-1960s American judicial rights revolution, and the Universal Declaration is now interpreted as if it were a global Bill of Rights, a list of es...
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