HIST 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Marquis De Condorcet, Lynn Hunt, Toleration
16 Sep 2018
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7th of sep: questioning established ideas and authorities: Human rights: political rights: equal participation in voting, officeholding, and other aspects of political participation, civil rights: equal treatment before the law in matters, concerning marriage, property, and inheritance. Universal definition: recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world. Monarchy: supreme power/ sovereignty held by a single person. Some nations reject the relevance of human rights to their lands, belong to communities/ nations rather than individuals. Human rights is only a western notion and hence unsuited to other cultures. The idea of human rights nonetheless steadily gained ground in the 18th century, propelled by the campaigns for religious toleration and the abolition of slavery. Louis xiv had revoked all the rights and privileges of french calvinists, requiring them to convert to catholicism.
