HISTORY 3XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lynn Hunt, Fetus, Cultural Relativism
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22 May 2017
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History 3XX3: Human Rights in History
May 2, 2017
The te hua ights has’t oe up i itig util 9s
The idea that people claim to be human, but act to deny other people human rights
How do you get people to respect human rights?
What are human rights?
By the very fact that we are human beings, gives us rights
What are Human Rights?
Claims made by individuals for basic dignity and equality
- Baseline level of equality for all
- Our humanity is the source of our claim
Rights are a dominant normative and moral discourse in political life globally
- Legally ad oally ights ae tups
Universal
All individuals deserve rights simply by virtue of being human
Who is hua?
What happes to those ho ae’t hua?
Lynn Hunt, Inventing Human Rights (2007)
Rights eai ope to uestio eause of ou sese of ho has ights ad hat those ights
ae ostatly hages. The hua ights eolutio is y defiitio uedig.
Richard Spencer
Should this neo-Nazi be denied human rights?
Paul Benardo
Should this serial rapist and murderer be denied human rights?
Osama Bin Laden
Should this terrorist leader have the right to fair trial?
Should he have been tortured?
To take aay asi hua digity is to dey a idiidual’s huaity, ut…
Do Nazis have rights?
Rapists?
Terrorists?
The insane?
Persons with highly contagious and lethal diseases?
A fetus?
Animals?
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