POLI 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Individual And Group Rights, Negative Liberty, Asian Values
11 Apr 2017
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Where do we draw the line and who decides to draw it: ignatieff first identifies 3 challenges. The idea there is something universal about those human rights issues. To accept human rights, it to become western. As far as modernism is concerned, everything is power and human rights are another discourse of power. Problem: if human rights areimpurialistic then they are not really universal. It is much easier for locke: he was talking with people who shared certain cultural norms (conducts) Ignatieff thinks that human rights when they think of them as a second religion. Fear that would set liberal principals: there is a best way of life that is expressed through individuals. Ignatieff says: if you keep elevating human rights, treating rights as moral trumps . Locke: we have certain fundamental rights that kinds of caught us away . Individual rights take away that you are free to do what you want with your life.
