The Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy

Volume 3, 2007

Human Rights

Mary-Rose Barral
Pages 125-130

Freedom and Human Rights

Human beings are endowed by the Source of their existence on earth with those inalienable rights which all members of humanity ought to respect. Freedom, in all its basic forms, is the root of these rights, but sadly, it is not the patrimony of all the people of the world. Political, societal, even domestic situations often deprive persons of this personal endowment. Basically, a philosophy of life, construed on a set of false premises, rejects some persons and/or peoples as unworthy of the freedom which is their right.