Philosophy 2810F/G Chapter Notes -Welfare Rights, Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, General Idea
12 Jul 2012
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The general idea of human rights nickles. Udhr (1948)security rights, due process rights, liberty rights, political rights, equality rights, social and welfare rights. Human rights are political norms dealing mainly with how people should be treated by their governments and institutions they are not ordinary moral norms applying mainly to interpersonal conduct. Exist as moral and or legal rights. Are minimal or at least modest standards concerned with avoiding the terrible than with achieving the best. International norms covering all countries and all people universal. High priority norms paramount importance, this doesn"t mean they"re absolute however. Require robust justifications that apply everywhere and support their high priority. Are rights but not necessarily in a strict sense. Effective system of criminal law and of legal property rights. Hr are helpful in identifying the limits of justifiable toleration. Fulfillment of human rights is a very vague idea. Restricting human rights to only a few fundamental rights.
