Entering the humanities
Assignment 2.
1. What answers do these five websites provide to the main question whether or not Cyrus was the founding father of human rights?
The main question is if Cyrus the Great was the founding father of the human rights, but the answer is not so clear as many have rejected this view and specific of the cylinder as the declaration of the human rights. The Wikipedia has a different view on this subject, it gives us mostly general information about the cylinder (and the historical events), not for Cyrus himself. Although it gives us the text of the cylinder which in line 36-37 Cyrus declares that he let people live in peace. Furthermore, points that Cyrus had respect for the religious and political traditions of the Babylon. But on the other hand show us the …show more content…
The livius.org has less information but clearly says that Cyrus was a normal ruler and king and that there is no evidence that Cyrus had a policy of intolerance and so on that he wasn’t the founder father of the human rights. According to the iranchamber.com, Cyrus was the founder of the Human Rights and also a great man of his time and can be considered even as an influence on our nowadays thinking. Furthermore the humanrights.com seems to agree with the Iranian Chamber, although it gives an overview of the history of human rights rather than for Cyrus specific but it says that he declared that all people had the freedom and the right to choose their religion, also he established the equality between the
Assignment 2.
1. What answers do these five websites provide to the main question whether or not Cyrus was the founding father of human rights?
The main question is if Cyrus the Great was the founding father of the human rights, but the answer is not so clear as many have rejected this view and specific of the cylinder as the declaration of the human rights. The Wikipedia has a different view on this subject, it gives us mostly general information about the cylinder (and the historical events), not for Cyrus himself. Although it gives us the text of the cylinder which in line 36-37 Cyrus declares that he let people live in peace. Furthermore, points that Cyrus had respect for the religious and political traditions of the Babylon. But on the other hand show us the …show more content…
The livius.org has less information but clearly says that Cyrus was a normal ruler and king and that there is no evidence that Cyrus had a policy of intolerance and so on that he wasn’t the founder father of the human rights. According to the iranchamber.com, Cyrus was the founder of the Human Rights and also a great man of his time and can be considered even as an influence on our nowadays thinking. Furthermore the humanrights.com seems to agree with the Iranian Chamber, although it gives an overview of the history of human rights rather than for Cyrus specific but it says that he declared that all people had the freedom and the right to choose their religion, also he established the equality between the