Human Rights in Dealing with the Environmental Crisis: Seyyed Hossein Nasr’s Perspective
Journal Name:
- International Journal of Islamic Thought
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Abstract (2. Language):
‘Human rights’ are the basic rights and fundamental freedoms. Today’s human
rights movements also concern on nature in resolving the environmental crisis.
Within the freedom of thought and expression, this trend has extended
dramatically in recent years, as many people have been surrounded by massive
pollutions such as global warming and water crisis. Many environments have
been greatly altered by human activities. On the right track, scholars and
scientists have taken risks to test so many ideas and approaches that could
lead to exponential changes to improve or even preserve the natural
environment. Although ‘human rights’ has been used popularly in recent
decades, Seyyed Hossein Nasr argues that the term should be blamed for the
environmental crisis we are presently facing. As one of the most important and
foremost Muslim philosophers in the world today, Nasr emphasizes that the
environmental crisis is created by the crisis of human value in their philosophy
of human rights based on human ‘freedom’. Nasr’s writings on human rights
can be observed in his Islam and the Environmental Crisis (1990), Islam and
the Challenge of the 21st Century (1993) and Religion and the Order of Nature
(1996). This semantic study is to show that human rights’ philosophy is too
dangerous to nature, tracking on the unconditional absolute rights. Through
semantic analysis, the study finds that ‘human rights’ are related to secular
philosophy which enthrones the unlimited human freedom, and at the same
time against the order of nature as Divine Order.
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