The rights declarations replaced historical rights with rights deduced from human nature.

Evidence

The basic innovation introduced by the philosophy of praxis into the science of politics and of history is the demonstration that there is no abstract “human nature”, fixed and immutable (a concept which certainly derives from religious and transcendentalist thought), but that human nature is the totality of historically determined social relations, hence an historical fact which can, within certain limits, be ascertained with the methods of philology and criticism. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 617 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Restoring human rights requires restoring national rights, not abstract declarations.; Human nature is the totality of historically determined social relations, not a fixed essence. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 617; The French Revolution fused human rights with national sovereignty (+3 more)

Related

• Human nature is the totality of historically determined social relations, not a fixed essence. (similarity 0.86)
• The Rights of Man were grounded in a supposed human nature rather than history (similarity 0.84)
• Human nature is the ever-changing complex of social relations, not a fixed essence (similarity 0.83)
• Humanity has replaced nature and history as the ground of human rights (similarity 0.82)
• Human rights content results from political struggle, not nature or consensus (similarity 0.80)
• The inalienable rights of the abstract individual were immediately fused with national sovereignty (similarity 0.80)
• The French Revolution fused human rights with national sovereignty (similarity 0.79)
• Natural right functions as history’s perpetual defeated ‘other’ (similarity 0.79)
• Objects are studied as social relations, not physical things (similarity 0.79)
• Restoring human rights requires restoring national rights, not abstract declarations. (similarity 0.79)
• The Rights of Man were only ever enforced as national rights, not universal ones (similarity 0.78)
• Human rights replaced religious and estate guarantees in secularized society. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Human nature is the totality of historically determined social relations, not a fixed essence. #contradicts (0.85) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 617
• Natural right functions as history’s perpetual defeated ‘other’ #contradicts (0.80)
• Social and cultural structures overdetermine our natural human constitution. #contradicts (0.80)
• The French Revolution fused human rights with national sovereignty #expands (0.75)
• Histories of conquest functioned as groundings of public right alongside natural law #qualifies (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 140