Human Rights, a Constructed Reality: Another Defense of Human Rights

The universality of human rights today is based above all on the establishment of these rights on the natural right of human beings to benefit all human beings, regardless of their religious, racial, or national affiliations, solely because of their commonality in humanity. But does the human being have natural rights as a result of its humanity? And can natural rights and the enjoyment of human rights as a result of the humanity of human beings and their equality in a concept called humanity provide a strong basis for the universality of these rights? This article considers natural rights and human rights not as objective and discoverable facts for human beings, but as inter-subjective and agreed realities arising from common human understanding - just like the current understanding of the ugliness of lying among human beings - and it is argued that the establishment of human rights based on natural rights and natural law without paying attention to its inter-subjective and understanding aspects, will not be able to provide a convincing justification for human rights, especially for its universality. The type of study in this research is descriptive and analytical. By using library and Internet resources and by examining human cognition of human rights and presenting another perception of concepts such as natural rights and human nature, attempts have been made in this article to provide a new concept of human rights and its fundamentals that can better explain human rights and its universality.