Research Of Human Rights Thought In The Renaissance

In the modern-day legal system development of China, how to really develop the human rights in the depth and extent is brought up on the agenda again. Then, the rearrangement of the modern western development history about human rights thought seems increasingly important. The formation of human rights concept in the renaissance has the immeasurable status and function. The thinkers with uncommon courage in that period went to seek the attention to human in the culture of ancient Greece and Rome, and brought to a great height of development and carried out the thinking and discussion of human rights on the basis of it. The human rights thought in the renaissance is the thought basis and theoretical source of enlightenment thinkers finally establishing the human rights concept later. Moreover, the love, care and respect for human as well as the recognition for the basic rights of human, which all have apocalypse for developing the train of thought of human rights in the present age of China.This text includes four parts: formation background of human rights thought in the renaissance, development conditions of human rights thought in the renaissance, philosophy basis of human rights thought in the renaissance, and historical criticism and modern apocalypse of human rights thought in the renaissance.This text introduces the natural economy of the Middle Ages disintegrates gradually in the first part, in the meantime the buds of capitalism have begun to form, and the development of commodity economy urges the thirst of freedom and equality. However, people of that time live under the bondage and suppression of religion, God occupies imperatorial status in the society, and people's thought is also inhibited. But, with the further development of capitalist economy, the city gradually flourishes, and the serfs gain the freedom of person step by step and the burgher class also continuously develops and grows up. The advanced thinkers go to seek the inspiration again from the prosperous thought and culture of ancient times. The second part introduces the development course of human rights thought in early renaissance and late renaissance. It describes the thinking and discussion of thinkers and scholars of that time for the human's basic rights, such as freedom, equality, development and happiness; although these thoughts are comparatively scraggly and scattered, they still gather into a stream of human rights thought. There is always a steam of main theme in this stream of human rights thought, and that is just the its philosophy basis—humanism. The third part introduces the connotation and value provision of humanism as well as humanism's historical function to generation and formation of the renaissance. After analyzing the substance, characteristics, historical function and limitation of human rights thought in the renaissance, the last part describes Marxism classic author's criticism for human rights thought in the renaissance and apocalypse for the development of China's human rights of the present age.This text tries to sum up the human rights thought in the western renaissance through using the historical analysis method; although the thought about human rights can't become a system at that time, it also doesn't form a systematic concept. But, the essential thought embodied by it shows the bright sparkle in the thought history of human rights.