References to human rights are now so popular that the theme has become a new type of de facto religion in the West, though it bears no such name. The world has long lacked a supreme ideology capable of all-inclusive ...References to human rights are now so popular that the theme has become a new type of de facto religion in the West, though it bears no such name. The world has long lacked a supreme ideology capable of all-inclusive coverage. The modem material world is already mature, but the absence of spiritual leadership suggests the incompleteness of modernity. It is against such a backdrop that the concept of human rights has managed to evolve into a new religion by ingeniously assimilating the resources of Chris- tianity and liberalism, so much so that human rights nowadays enjoy nearly the same standing as Christianity in the Middle Ages.展开更多
文摘References to human rights are now so popular that the theme has become a new type of de facto religion in the West, though it bears no such name. The world has long lacked a supreme ideology capable of all-inclusive coverage. The modem material world is already mature, but the absence of spiritual leadership suggests the incompleteness of modernity. It is against such a backdrop that the concept of human rights has managed to evolve into a new religion by ingeniously assimilating the resources of Chris- tianity and liberalism, so much so that human rights nowadays enjoy nearly the same standing as Christianity in the Middle Ages.
