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[https://www.jstor.org/stable/44488974 by Vincenzo Ferrone JSTOR] | [https://www.jstor.org/stable/44488974 by Vincenzo Ferrone JSTOR] | ||
Lately, the study of human rights has become a dangerous ground for historians—above all in Europe. In his celebrated Le Sottisier, Gustave Flaubert ironically defined history as a dangerous knowledge for teachers and students; yet, he was not fully aware in his time of all the rivalries and pretentions that scholars from other fields—like anthropology, law, sociology, political theory—would raise. In fact, those scholars seem to be frightened when seeing the ranks of the historians approaching a field they consider their own property. This is certainly the case of human rights. | Lately, the study of human rights has become a dangerous ground for historians—above all in Europe. In his celebrated Le Sottisier, Gustave Flaubert ironically defined history as a dangerous knowledge for teachers and students; yet, he was not fully aware in his time of all the rivalries and pretentions that scholars from other fields—like anthropology, law, sociology, political theory—would raise. In fact, those scholars seem to be frightened when seeing the ranks of the historians approaching a field they consider their own property. This is certainly the case of human rights. | ||
=====Enlightenment===== | |||
[https://en.namu.wiki/w/%EA%B3%84%EB%AA%BD%EC%A3%BC%EC%9D%98 by Enlightenment] | |||
It appeared in Europe in the 17th century and spread in the 18th century, and developed into a movement of the times in which numerous scholars participated, including Isaac Newton , Baruch Spinoza , John Locke , David Hume , Edward Gibbon , Voltaire , Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Denis Diderot , and Immanuel Kant . | |||
