By Alexandre Lefebvre
We are inclined to consider human rights because the pressing foreign undertaking of shielding everybody in all places from damage. Bergson exhibits us that human rights may also function a medium of private transformation and self-care. For Bergson, the most objective of human rights is to begin all people into love. Forging connections among human rights scholarship and philosophy as self-care, Lefebvre makes use of human rights to channel the entire of Bergson's philosophy.
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