Whenever I hear any cry over human rights, images of people dying from bubonic plague appears in front of me. People dying, crying over their loved ones and most importantly, people looking hopelessly on their future. Anyone will ask, why?
Human rights, as defined currently, have borrowed their complete terminology from western European countries. Also, these same countries were the prime victims of plague in 13-15th century. Cities were wiped out, boundaries of countries were changed and people ran around hopelessly from the wrath of nature. It was a brutal slaughter of humans and a harsh reminder of insignificance of humans in front of nature. So, what it did to the people who survived this onslaught!!
There were many reactions. Some found solace in completely submitting their life to the religion which in its false notion gave them hope that they are cared by some supreme being above nature. Some accepted their nothingness and worked to gain some hold, to control nature. Some tried to delude themselves and others by proclaiming authority, people flocked to them as people were looking something to hold on and give them meaning of life. Some even gave up everything and became wanderers and explorers, uncovering the mystery of nature became their life's sole aim.
It was an explosion of ideas, thinking and reasoning. Renaissance started from this, as well colonialism and industrialization. Experimentation and reasoning gave these European an edge over other civilization. As per managerial point of view, for a strong team, trust and respect are most important, the nature provided impetus for the same. Horizon of a person's identification with their clans, town, family, and town expanded. People forgetting their difference, huddled together. Their identity of themselves became dissolved, class difference which existed at that time lost its stronghold and mutual respect, added with individualism dominated the history thereafter. Value of human life increased manifold. People started talking about shared rights of all humans which are natural to a human. Nature of human was considered from their point of view as per that time's thinking and culture.
People realized the difference between the limitations they put on themselves due to their beliefs and faith. Society, controlled by some aristocrats was seen to be a barrier to human's natural growth. New form of society started to evolve which where entry to controlling class was not restricted by birth. That was the dawn of capitalism. Amassing huge capital was a mean to join the aristocracy. Though, its birth was to remove this class difference altogether but this process gave rise to some different classes.
Human rights, as defined currently, have borrowed their complete terminology from western European countries. Also, these same countries were the prime victims of plague in 13-15th century. Cities were wiped out, boundaries of countries were changed and people ran around hopelessly from the wrath of nature. It was a brutal slaughter of humans and a harsh reminder of insignificance of humans in front of nature. So, what it did to the people who survived this onslaught!!
There were many reactions. Some found solace in completely submitting their life to the religion which in its false notion gave them hope that they are cared by some supreme being above nature. Some accepted their nothingness and worked to gain some hold, to control nature. Some tried to delude themselves and others by proclaiming authority, people flocked to them as people were looking something to hold on and give them meaning of life. Some even gave up everything and became wanderers and explorers, uncovering the mystery of nature became their life's sole aim.
It was an explosion of ideas, thinking and reasoning. Renaissance started from this, as well colonialism and industrialization. Experimentation and reasoning gave these European an edge over other civilization. As per managerial point of view, for a strong team, trust and respect are most important, the nature provided impetus for the same. Horizon of a person's identification with their clans, town, family, and town expanded. People forgetting their difference, huddled together. Their identity of themselves became dissolved, class difference which existed at that time lost its stronghold and mutual respect, added with individualism dominated the history thereafter. Value of human life increased manifold. People started talking about shared rights of all humans which are natural to a human. Nature of human was considered from their point of view as per that time's thinking and culture.
People realized the difference between the limitations they put on themselves due to their beliefs and faith. Society, controlled by some aristocrats was seen to be a barrier to human's natural growth. New form of society started to evolve which where entry to controlling class was not restricted by birth. That was the dawn of capitalism. Amassing huge capital was a mean to join the aristocracy. Though, its birth was to remove this class difference altogether but this process gave rise to some different classes.
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