Human Rights and the Right to Life
Human Rights and the Right to Life

Summary/Abstract: This essay is going to cover the topic of the human rights in general, the theories surrounding them, the categories of human rights and their position against public interests. A special emphasis will be put on the right to live as ‘… the supreme value in the international hierarchy of human rights…’ especially in the context of the European Convention on Human Rights (Article 2). The sole purpose of the paper is to challenge the readers to think about the essence, philosophy and morality of the human rights and the right to life, in particular. I hope to achieve that by providing a thorough analysis about different aspects of human rights and diverse views on them as well as by pointing out the importance of the right to life. This will have as a result not just a better understanding of the doctrine of human rights (which by itself is nothing more than just a theory) but hopefully it will also give rise in the mind of the reader, to a whole new, better and improved, more ethical view on the world and the people living in it. But, of course, it is up to the reader to decide if this essay is going to influence his opinion and challenge him to think more broadly and from a different, more moral perspective.

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