Similarities Between Human Rights And Hannah Arendt

There are many similarities and differences in the way that Hannah Arendt and John A. Gentry thought about what our natural and human rights are. A definition for human rights from “Dictionary.com” is, “ fundamental rights, especially those believed to belong to an individual and in whose exercise a government may not interfere like the rights to speak, associate, work, or other laws stated in The Bill of Rights.” The definition of natural rights is as stated at "Dictionary.com”, "a political theory that individuals have basic rights given to them by nature or God that no individual or government can deny". The natural rights that The Declaration of Independence lists 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' as natural rights. Now that we all know exactly what natural and human rights are, it is time to see what each of theses authors have to say about them.
No special law was needed to protect man because all laws were supposed to rest upon them. Although man has these human rights, The moment we have no government we have no ability to protect ourselves and our rights. The rights of man proved to be unenforceable. Because we have had these rights for so long, we no longer have a distinct image of what they are, so when we get them taken away, we have no clue as to which rights we have