In their book Human Rights: Cultural and Ideological Perspectives, Adamantia Pollis and Peter Schwab (1979) present a view of the UDHR which asserts that it is based upon only one interpretation of human rights, and that interpretation is 'Western'. ... The ancient Greeks thinker Aristotle spoke of man as a social being with a 'reasoning soul' and in Christianity the biblical notion of man is in the 'image and likeness of God'. ... Rene Descartes worked from the idea 'I think, therefore I am' and Immanuel Kant examined the being of human as equal and...

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