MMW 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: A Priori And A Posteriori, Menahem Mendel Beilis, Eleanor Roosevelt

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 14
• Professor: Steven Dennis Cassedy

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Mmw 14 lecture 20 human rights. Previous conceptions of rights: rights of the individual as subject in a monarchy, theory of political legitimacy. Inherited rule from parents: rights defined by the monarch, rights of the individual as civilian in a civil society, social contract theory, people are born with certain rights, a priori statement, people are born equal. The new conception of rights: ights of the i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual as (cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)ers of the (cid:858)hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) fa(cid:373)ily(cid:859) Individual human beings are said to enjoy rights in fu(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374) of (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g (cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)ers of the (cid:858)hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) fa(cid:373)ily(cid:859) Race as a taxonomic subject: people thinking that race meant that people of different races could be essentially of different species, discouraging intermingling of races in order to preserve race purity. Race goes international: decoupling race from nation in order to make the claim about the common human origin and rights that attach to that. Dreyfus, 1894-1906: you (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:859)t treat so(cid:373)e(cid:271)ody like that just (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause they are je(cid:449)ish/et(cid:272).