The Significance of Philosophical Knowledge in Enlightening of the Human Rights

Human rights is a concept which expresses the abstract and ideation rather than apparent and concrete. It is a basic problematic to comprehend human rights in essence due to its abstract and ideational content. Due to this problematic, this research study aims to discuss the place and significance of philosophical information in enlightening the human rights. In this framework, exactly what roles do the disciplines of philosophy such as ethics, epistemology, and law philosophy have on enlightening the human rights are analyzed. On the other hand, it is investigated whether the critical, interrogator and problem-penetrating characteristics of philosophy supports informative enlightening of human rights. Moreover, it is discoursed, which arguments philosophy provides to comprehend the rights, and the role of the philosophical information in human rights education. In the framework of this research study, the competence and priority of right over law, and natural law over positive law play a leading role in enlightening human rights in philosophical context