PHI 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Negative And Positive Rights, Cultural Relativism, Authoritarianism
5 Apr 2016
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Rights people are entitled to just for being human is a new concept. Non-european civilizations had different mechanisms to pursue general wellbeing of humanity. Pre-modern europe thought specific rights belonged to specific classes. Rights in western world were not inclusive until un universal declaration, until then they excluded on basis of sex and race. Universal declaration of human rights- adopted by un in 1948, includes right to life, freedom of speech, property, education, adequate standard of living. 1993 bangkok declaration- reaffirmed commitment of asian participants to entirety of universal declarations of human rights, but criticized liberal" rights (economic, social, cultural) Liberalism and rights theory (justification of human rights as moral rights- Carlos santiago: principle of personal autonomy, principle of inviolability of the person, principle of the dignity of the person, locke, kant, mill. Critics of asian regimes from universalist position on human rights. Critics of human rights from a relativist position of asian values.
