PHIL 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Golden Rule, Universalizability, Social Protection
28 Aug 2016
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Phil 2103 lecture 3a- justifications and how they fail. Of persons or groups which others must respect, protect ensure. The concept of human rights (review of concepts so far). Human rights are ethical entitlements (or moral guarantees) linking. The other persons, groups, and institutions that must respect, protect, ensure them. Respect, protection, fulfilment are: justified in human rights we have, effective in the human rights we enjoy. Two ways in which a human right can be real : being realized: respected, protected, supported, being justified: whether or not it"s realized, to be is to be justified . There is a right to x therefore it is wrong for anyone to be deprived of x. Rather: what must be done, because doing otherwise is wrong, not, just for us, but for anyone. Asserting a moral principle means accepting that it may apply to you. The soprano right or the right to whack .
