The Importance of Political Society in Western Civilization

The purpose of political society is to create conditions that will allow the most number of people to be happy in this life. Human rights are just like the moral law of the state and it's rights that you and I can hold against our country, he says. The non West were not really too interested in the universal declaration of human rights because it was speaking from a certain group of people in Western Europe. It has legitimacy if we use it intelligently to make claims right and seek protections for people but to do it in a way that we understand that this is not universal per se., writes Peter Bergen.