POL 4189 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Culture Of Quebec, Rationality, Relativism
5 Feb 2015
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Civil (1-16: equality, life & freedom, servitude, torture, rule of law (6-11, privacy, movement, nationality, marriage. Social/economic (22-29: social security, standard of living, work, education, culture & community. Consequential argument: foundational rights are innate as human beings. 2015-01-29: consequential we don"t know where they come from but we know what rights do for us. Human nature vs. human history: ignatieff rights don"t come from human nature, they come from human history we"ve learned what atrocities human nature is capable of so we need to protect ourselves. Cultural relativism: human rights vary according to cultural tradition and beliefs, the influence of past violation of human rights on our modern conception of its definition. Moral codes of one culture: donnelly universal rights vs. There are as many understandings of freedom as there are cultures in the world. Freedom can be understood in as many ways as a culture will define it.
