Rights Class 11 Notes

CBSE Notes for Rights Class 11 Notes

Rights are justified by claim or entitlements. Rights literally mean those freedoms that are essential for personal good as well as for the good of the community. Political theorists of seventeenth and eighteenth centuries emphasized that rights are given to us by nature or God. In recent years, rights are seen as guarantees that human beings seek to lead a good life. The natural rights are those rights, which persons possess by nature. John Locke argues that everyone has Natural Rights that we are entitled to in a state of nature, which proceeds society. Kant said that human being, unlike other objects, possesses dignity. He emphasized the moral aspects, i.e., treating others in the manner that we like to be treated and another person should not be treated as a means to achieve our ends. Human rights are "basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled to”. Each human being possesses intrinsic value, hence we must have equal opportunities to be free and realize our full potential. Please refer Rights Class 11 Notes for more information.