Political Science 3388E Lecture Notes - Business Insider, Negative And Positive Rights, United Nations Economic And Social Council
7 Feb 2014
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The language of human rights is designed to be spoken of universally. not bound by sex, religion, boarder, ethnicity, race, nationality. We have human rights and we can talk about them because we are simply human beings. Why do we have human rights? the core of the universalist perspective: we have human rights because: we are human beings basic and powerful. Universalists argue this will have considerable consequences for people around the world. For much of modern history in order to be considered a right holder you had to be a land hold adult male, however in time, this idea was rejected by those who existed beyond this small group. Once we introduced human rights, this is what goodhart calls the revolutionary character of human rights. pg. 3 the idea of human rights it swept away in one swoop all the grounds through which the subordination of some individuals, groups, or categories of people have been justified .
