LAWS 2105 Lecture Notes - Francisco De Vitoria, Magna Carta, Alternate History
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Class 3 laws2105c january 21, 2014. A commitment to critiquing the law is by looking at the history of the law: many version of the past, from various perspectives; determining the real history is complex. In human rights and all disciplines, this can be done by gathering stories from more than one perspective. In the first reading, the reason why human rights culture is a universal consciousness today is examined: argued that though there are differences in opinions on rights, there are some basic principles that almost everyone agrees with. Most agree on right to life, liberty, etc. ; arguments are usually around interpretation, practices, definition but not that they do not exist: answer author arrives at is the reason there is a culture of human rights is expressive individualism. World community comes together and makes commitment to protecting human rights through law.