PHL 400 Lecture Notes - Banksy, Slippery Slope

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHL 400
• Professor: Mark Clamen

Document Summary

Rachels: not about human rights per say, but about more general things. Philosopher jacques maritian (at one time professor at u of t and later one of the drafters of the 1948. We all agree on the rights, as long as no one asks us why [pacificity; our collective inability to provide reasons as to why they are important] Once you start defining what it means to be human, we will end up bringing out the worst and exclude people by definition disability, characteristics, etc. Exploitation of south korea workers for american entertainment. Universal power and appeal of framing the question by invoking norms and images and. Is this right, is this the best we can do, are we asking the right questions? juxtaposing them with images, to the point where something is communicated to us. Neither relative nor universal: a response to donnelly. Donnelly struggles with the relative universality of human rights practical and empirical.