Human Rights : Some Problems Within the Concept and the Conceptual Importation to Thai Society
Keywords:
human rights, Natural rightsAbstract
The concept of Human Rights can be traced back to the idea of human nature within the Christianity and the school of contractarianism. The concept becomes a focal point when it is used in the sphere of politics of the U.S. declaration of Independence, the bill of rights in the U.S. constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Once the idea was imported into Thailand, it fell in the same position as any imported political ideas which were stretched, twisted to fit Thai political context. The development of the process of being twisted caused the problem within the concept of losing the claiming of the human nature, the increase of the amount of rights that had no boundary and the problem of the conflicting between the original context of the concept and Thai culture. The result of all these problems, the problem within the concept itself or the problem of importing to Thai society, tends to lead the concept becoming the political significance concept without the driving force to develop or change the relationship between the state and the citizens and between the citizen, themselves according to the concept
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