LAWS 3307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Universal Declaration Of Human Rights
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The issue: the conventional view of human rights in philosophy is that they exist as moral rights, that they do(cid:374)"t depe(cid:374)d o(cid:374) hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:373)ade la(cid:449)s. Some people feel that this idea of human rights in the moral sense- rights that exist quite independently of law, or even of customary morality-is unclear, obscure, or even metaphysical. Laws can be created giving people certain legal rights, but the laws cannot make those legal rights hr. State of nature: this term refers to the (hypothetical) condition prior to the existence of any state to keep peace and order. Such a condition would be unpleasant for many reasons. (remember the novel lord of the flies. ) So, rational people would try to get out of the son by entering into an agreement to set up a state. The state is thus seen as the outcome of this agreement, or contract.
