Philosophical Genesis of Human Rights Thinking

Human being shapes their own essence through their own choices and life experiences.

Sigmund Freud: “Human self is not something over which the individual has control and is not something which can be said to exist simply a priori.”

Nietzsche (in Derrida and Foucault) asserted that “we can challenge the innate assumptions of our age and resist the idea that certain claims to truth are necessarily valid.”

Sigmund Freud in Epistemology field suggests that: “We can know things through rational, dialectical argument without necessarily being able to prove them empirically.”