RHETOR 103B Lecture 14: R103B Lecture 14 03.07.2017
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Depends on how you define rule of law (versus rule of men) Struck by power given by law to define humanity > human dehumanized population. Rhetoric: because iraq had dictator, justified to intervene. Making association between legality and state human. Is state god (assumptions of many human rights institutions - they give language) 2 problems/ tasks (1) how did this work in colonies? (2) what are the situations that allow a human not to be inscribed and defined by the law. Human and humanity: figure of human, humanity as collective of human beings. Conventional wisdoms and assumptions (try to rethink) (1) lawlessness is colony (2) colonial powers/ force/ violence dehumanize (3) in absence of proper modern legal institutions, the person is dehumanized. Law is a protective ( if not agree with eo > scream unconstitutional ) There is a pre-given definition of human that carries particular meanings. Opposed to inhuman, overcoming of repression, discrimination and exclusion.
