The Origin of Concept of Right in Legal Thinking of Classical Antiquity in the Context of Human Rights Thinking

This article focuses on the concept of rights in classical antiquity in the context of human rights ideas. The starting point is, in principle, thesis that modern concepts of human rights have their foundations in the idea of rights as they were developed in European legal thought, while other non-Western traditions did not developed this idea and the value of human dignity protect via other means…