HUMR 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: For Marx
26 Sep 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
The study and promotion of human rights necessitates an understanding of how rights have been violated; whore rights have been violated and by whom; why the abuses occurred; and very importantly, how such violations have been rationalized and justi ed. Important to see where we get the information and from who. And who controls the present controls the past . Studying human rights is to honour those who have suffered and to learn from the past mistakes, so in the future, such oppression does not happen again. History: the common sense view; which proposes that there are certain basic facts which are recognized by all historians and form the backbone of history. Suggests when he graduated with his phd he was interested in organizing non violent social movements and the rights of african americans. Stresses that it"s dishonest for historians to pretend they"re entirely objective and not to acknowledge their own values.
