# -*- dokl: IusHunt1706LngEn; mode: fundamental; coding: utf-8 -*- ## Label lab := hunt ## Title tit := Inventing Human Rights as Sacred Bulwark against Reason of State ## Subtitle sut := Learnings from a Lecture of Prof. Lynn Hunt about 18th Century France ## Description des := $(q:Human Rights) were $(q:self-evident) both in 1776 and in 1948. Behind them we do not a moral philosophy but a story of softening of sentiments toward the infortunate and criminal parts of humanity and a movement to use this new sentiment as a substitute for fading Christianity in its function of limiting the power of government. However Human Rights sacralize secular objects and they work against any sovereign, including the people. kws := Summum Ius, a2e, mlht #EOF