ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Political Philosophy, Sharia, Laura Nader
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Anthropology 2 november 7 lecture 16. Broke out of the constrains of an older system: rights. Pertain to individuals: no agreements about what humans have rights to, or how to secure rights. Human rights (1948>: united nations (1948) universal declaration of human rights. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. 22 25 social security, work, rest and leisure, standard of living, health and well being. 27 free participation in culture, arts, science. Universalism vs. relativism: human rights are a universalist concept, relativism: Respect for particular cultures and differences: universalism: She is being factual: other cultural traditions. We have to take diversity and other traditions seriously: failure to enforce rights (2, liberal individualism and universalism limits political projects of groups (3) There are no political groups no peasants and hierarchy. However, we are still put in categories and because this is still operated, universalism does not apply to this.
