GS461 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Moral Economy, Baruch Spinoza, Individualism
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Concept of humanitarian action enactment of specific practices by certain organizations to certain populations. These 3 look more-or-less similar and overall help define humanitarian endeavors. Understanding of humanitarianism as discourse and action that revolves around these 3 things. These can all be understood between tensions between values and affects etc. It"s a language that wants to bring levels from ____ to systemic. A humanitarian encounter between donor/victim is about encounter of values: what are values, values can be taken as what humans regard worthy or important, they are the regard that something is to be deserved. The worth/usefulness of something: this is about personal values. These are the values shared by the members of wider communities: patriotism a value that is often expressed. (cultural value, cultural values are more general and abstract than norms, the cast system expresses hierarchal values systems in india.
