Political Science 3388E Lecture Notes - Stoicism, Jeremy Bentham, Protestantism
7 Feb 2014
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*be able to place theories and ideas of human rights in the context of history, don"t give like a knowledge about the historical background. The stoics (as influential thinkers) 301 bc-529 ad. Thirty year war (1618-1648) and treaty of westphalia (1648) John locke"s second treatise of civil government (1689) Really the idea of rights comes in the later part of the enlightenment. Rights are the justified claim for something or someone that is owed. Greeks were not interested in rights, but in understanding human behaviour. The source of moral principles (proper behaviour for individuals) is nature. So, the nature of a human tells us what that human is for, and how it should be treated. Humans are rational and political animals so should pursue of life of intellectual inquiry and/or a life of political deliberation. Looking at a concept called natural law, this eventually does flow into the idea of rights,
