HUMR 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Total War, Scicrunch, Norman Geras
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How was it in the eighteenth century living in society"s with structural inequality, imperialism, colonialism, how was it that the states men declared human rights to be self-evident, universal rights. How did human rights become so self-evident to all of humanity. The idea that all humans are entitled to equal rights required in other words a sense of otherness as still having some similarity to myself. Important in its own right, because it is convincing. Hannah arendt has a similarity to lynn hunt * (essay) Thoughtfulness, eichmann in jerusalem is seen to be thoughtless and refuses to show empathy for those who he sent to the gas chambers, she doesn"t mean stupidity she means lack of empathy, judgement. Enlarged mentality, humans display a large mentality, lack of to consider others. Human rights cannot be defined once and for all, there content cannot be fixed because there emotional basses continues to shift pg.
