FYSM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hugo Grotius, Political Philosophy, Amartya Sen
4 Mar 2017
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Week 1 - september 7 - introduction and overview - the (cid:862)paradox(cid:863) of hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) rights. Introduction: history and theories of human rights pg. The religious, scientific, and political revolutions of the sixteenth and seventeenth century caused a shift in thinking about human nature and just social order. Seventeenth to nineteenth century increasingly sophisticated philosophies. events -> american and french revolutions resulted in development of democratic governments based on the rights of man not divine rights of kings. Reason, greatly shaped present thinking of human rights. Through reason humans can act in accordance to with values of natural law. Natural law thinkers believe humans know the difference between right and wrong and can produce laws from this. Beginning of 17th century theory of natural law became secularized - ex: grotius natural law can be regarded as independent of god. Natural rights theory - modern philosophers ex: hobbes and locke.
