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1 Associate professor, Department of Public and International Law, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Allam Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran
2 Ph.D Student in Public Law, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran
3 ..D Student in Public Law, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Human rights are undoubtedly among the symbols of liberal political thoughts, which are critical indicators of the liberal strain that presents an individualistic and antagonistic picture of human society. Levinas is a thinker who criticizes this strain. According to Levinas, human rights get their objective meaning from the face-to-face confrontation with the "other". So that there is an interesting similarity between the situation of human rights and the phenomenology of this confrontation by Levinas. Therefore, in the current research, the main question is, what is the difference between Levinas's justification for human rights and the liberal approach of human rights? From this point of view, one of the most important starting points is the fact that the appearance of the "other" is not described by a common characteristic that can be found in its social context or appearance. Levinas's justification of human rights, better than other justifications of human rights, gives a more convincing answer to the most common objections to these rights that human rights spread individual selfishness and an antagonistic model of society. Levinas defends human rights as the rights of "others" and not as rights based on self. The rights of the "other" correspond to an extra-state status that has a kind of extra-territorial character and independence in a political society. Considering that in this research, while illustrating and explaining Levinas's view and its relationship with human rights, we explain the reasons and why of this relationship, the research method is descriptive and analytical.
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