First Things RSS Feed - Philippe Bénéton https://www.firstthings.com/author/philippe-bnton en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:51:32 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/philippe-bnton 60 The Languages of the Rights of Man https://www.firstthings.com/article/1993/11/the-languages-of-the-rights-of-man https://www.firstthings.com/article/1993/11/the-languages-of-the-rights-of-man Mon, 01 Nov 1993 00:00:00 -0500 Those who once spoke, or who speak, the language of the rights of man make up a most varied group: Jefferson and Mounier, Robespierre and Saint Just; Roosevelt but also Vyshinsky; John Paul II and Ronald Dworkin. Which is to say, this language has been used in a whole assortment of ways. Thus if the notion of the rights of man has become the hallmark of modern ethical theory and liberal politics, it is nevertheless a confused notion. There were, there are, different languages of the rights of man, and these languages must first of all be distinguished one from the another.

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