@article{2018,title={HUMAN RIGHTS, RATIONALITY AND SENTIMENTALITY},abstractNode={Human rights are commonly defined as “the rights to which people are inherently entitled simply because they are human beings”. However, this definition brings with it the question of “Why are people entitled to certain rights simply because they are human?”. As for the answer to this question, it is related to the question of “What is a human being?”, i.e. philosophical anthropology or human philosophy. The endeavour to answer this question is called as the “justification of human rights”. Until the present day, many philosophers provided several answers to this question, in other words, they attempted to justify human rights. However, as a pragmatist, Richard Rorty asserts in this article that justifying human rights is irrelevant and obsolete. For Rorty, the way to develop and disseminate human rights culture is not to put forth rationally the common characteristics (human nature) of human beings as a species and infer certain moral principles. Until today, this approach has provided no benefit. According to him, human rights culture can be protected and developed only through education that addresses to people’s sentiments.},author={Görkem BİRİNCİ},year={2018},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}