HUMR 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Natural Justice, Stoicism, Corpus Juris Civilis
16 Sep 2017
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Frames our actions when it comes to human rights. These theorists articulated it in a way that is easier to grasp, and delves to the core of the issues. Theory generalization (s) that seek to explain, or predict relationships among variables. Model an abstract simplified representation of reality. An ideal type (to understand things we will have to model them) Use as a starting point (what we think it should/can be) The safest general characterization of the european philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to plato - alfred north whitehead, process and reality. Most ideologies work off plato, as well as many human rights theories. Plato"s philosophic ideas are coming out when athens is failing, easy to see that many of his ideas of an ideal state and society came from what was happening around him. Ideal forms don"t exist but it is what we compare to.
