POLI 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Abortion Debate, Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, Cultural Imperialism
22 Aug 2016
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What are human rights? rights one has because one is human (donnelly) 1. 4 definition of personhood varies tautological what does it mean to be human? may change over space/time/cultures ex. of human rights violations > slavery, genocide, abortion debate, hierarchies of personhood. 1 ex. caste system, discrimination, differential treatment of people seen as lesser. 1 different ways people perceive their own humanity. Rights > legal / moral entitlements webster definition of right legal: 1 a right is a right because it is a law uses legal appeals ex. state. 1 a right is a right because it is morally justified normative argument that humans should have rights ex. labor workers. 2. 2 legal appeals concerned with protecting their own sovereignty required to protect rights they are legally obligated to human rights victims/advocates: legal appeals sometimes usually use moral appeals. 1 normative (should) moral appeals > lead to legal rights (movements from.
