Political Science 3388E Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Consequentialism, Rationality
11 Dec 2016
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Chapter 6: the relative universality of human rights. 5 senses in which human rights are fundamentally relative: ontological relativity, historical relativity, foundational relativity, relativity of enjoyment, relativity in specification. Descriptive title so she knows what you"re writing. Paragraph *at least 3 sentences that summarize the basic idea: write on any topic up to and including the day you hand in your essay. Annotated bibliography: list 3 sources and a short paragraph about each source, tell why the resource is useful for the essay. Orend looks at the conditions that have to be in place for human beings to have human rights. In order for us to have human rights, those conditions have to be both necessary and sufficient. Example: if you"re making a cake - flour is necessary for baking a cake. However, if you only have a bag of flour you can"t make a cake. Beyond the physical i. e. religion can be used to justify/entitle hr.
