JORAS - Nigerian Journal of Religion and Society

The paper assesses the social values of human right and dignity on the metaphysical valuation of the human person, especially as a subject of lived experience and as the real agent of development. It recognised the fact that the human person is placed at the centre of creation, and that the individual is meant to create an order with the gift of his or her rationality and reasonability to guarantee the right of his or her peaceful existence and development, and ultimately to preserve and respect his or her life and that of others since by his or her power and intellect he or she cannot create it. These rights are given to mankind especially the Right to Life, in which every other rights find their development, and the natural moral law expresses and lays down the purposes, rights and duties that are based upon the bodily and spiritual nature of the human person. But, on the negative side, the human person has been betraying this truth of stewardship by constantly abusing these rights associated with his or her boringness through his or her morally beclouded actions and choices. Adopting an expository method of analysis, the paper concludes that it is only indispensably necessary for the human person to place proper natural and social values on his or her personhood in order to order to sustain the advocacies for the protection and promotion of his or her rights and dimity for the sustainability of the courses of social order and peace. It also admitted that the values of the human person should be hinged and sustained on the definition and consideration of human rights and dinghy.

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