E.

HUMAN RIGHTS EXPRESSES THE IDEOLOGY, ETHICS, AESTHETIC SENSIBILITY AND

POLITICAL PRACTICE OF A PARTICULAR WESTERN 18TH THROUGH 20TH CENTURY LIBERALISM

The dispute whether human rights originated from the diverse nations or a specific
cultural or historical origin is of no necessity. The focus is on the advantages of human rights
to the world regardless of its origin. The human rights movement being said to have
Western liberal origins gave rise to the idea that it had the tainted origins. What happened
was that the problems of Western Culture was associated and carried over to the
movement as its own. Moreover, the emancipatory objectives have been narrowed into the
purview of the 19th and 20th century Western political tradition. It was like the movement
has been confined to its own tradition that diverse experiences and ideas of emancipation
could no longer be entertained.

The western tradition could not be said to be the sole culprit over such problems of
the movement. The human rights tradition itself has its own contribution to such problems.
Specifically, secularism was an idea that both the west and the human rights movement
actively supports. Secularism is believed to make the world spiritually less well off. Also,
criticisms against the modern liberal west will also be criticisms against human rights as they
are so intimately related.

Human rights encourages people to seek emancipation from superficial sources such
as reason rather than faith, in public rather than in private life, and in law rather than in
politics. Human rights must look at the essence of emancipation as an evolution from
natural passions of politics. Western thinking suggests that the human rights movement
provides an escape from the restraints of social conditions into the freedom of citizenship
without taking into notice that there are also losses.

The human rights movement promotes a fantasy about the modern/liberal/capitalist

west to the third world societies. It also emphasizes the difference between local/traditional
and international/modern forms of government and modes of life which further weakens
local political discourse and strengthens the modernists who use their power for their
political advantage.