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

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2004
Albayrak, Aydın
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.

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A. Albayrak, “The possibility of conceiving universal human rights in the sixteenth century political theory : the views of Vitoria and Las Casas,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2004.