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Human Rights During The Enlightenment Era

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The rights that everyone human gets for just being alive regardless of age, gender, and ethnicity, are we call Human Rights. The term human rights were given many different names over time until now. Not only did that term go through different names but it was not properly define by others. Also with the change in the time period and the way people began to think it brought about a definition a solid understanding of human rights. Lynn Hunt credits the Enlightenment period as the origin of human rights.
The Enlightenment period was a period in the mid-18th century where people began to put scientific reasoning on issues. Not only was critical thinking coming about, but there was an expansion of literacy. People were beginning to read more and
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