The possibility of conceiving universal human rights in the sixteenth century political theory: The views of Vitoria and Las Casas

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Thesis Type: Postgraduate

Institution Of The Thesis: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Turkey

Approval Date: 2004

Student: AYDIN ALBAYRAK

Supervisor: CEM DEVECİ

Abstract:

In this thesis,it has been aimed to evaluate the claims of which argue that the human rights thought has been firstly formulated by Francisco de Vitoria and Bartolome de Las Casas in the early sixteenth century Spain.