... maintain a stable state. First, Thomas Aquinas was an Italian Dominican friar and Catholic priest who was influential philosopher and theologist. He reinterpreted Aristotle's philosophy into Christian framework, and made it the base of Christian church. Aquinas though that because human beings are created in the image ... temporal goods as a reward for his command; instead he should look for an eternal reward given by God. According to Cicero in the book "De Officiis", people should evade the appetite for glory, since it eradicates the liberty of spirit; the desire for glory makes peop...

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... ;Western' states. To question the universality of human rights questions the validity of cross-cultural frameworks for rights and also the legitimacy of human rights norms (Ignatieff, 2001). In their book Human Rights: Cultural and Ideological Perspectives, Adamantia Pollis and Peter Schwab (1979) present a view of the UDHR which asserts that it is based upon only one interpretation of human rights ... product of the Greek philosophy, Roman law, the Judeo-Christian tradition, the humanism of the Reformation and the Age of reason' (Robertson and Merrils, 1996, p2). The ancient Greeks thin...

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... , so women were inferior to men. In the pray to God, he appreciated that he was not a woman. Another famous philosopher, Aristotle, held that women were the human beings with four strong limbs but simple brains. The classical western religious book, Bible, considered women to be the roots of all evils and proved the inequality between men and women to be quite ... ...

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