This book by Serhiy Holovaty is the first and so far the only one in Ukraine - about where human rights are taken in general and how, having broken through philosophical sources and turned into a moral order, they are taken by legal weight and how the Enlightenment brought up by philosophers The idea of human rights as a normative phenomenon of international and national legal systems is being affirmed worldwide. According to the Western tradition of law, it is proposed to cover the topic of human rights in the form of lectures in order to gain knowledge about doctrines, principles, institutions, mechanisms and procedures that guard human rights. For students, graduate students and teachers of law schools, scholars in the field of law, as well as for judges, lawyers, prosecutors and civil servants.