HUMR 1001- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 34 pages long!)

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Human Rights
• Course: HUMR 1001
• Professor: Davorka Ljubisic

Document Summary

Find it in the textbook (pg 27) universal, incontrovertible, subjective. List of theorists: planto, kant, hobbes, locke, weber, marx, grotius, aquinas, rosseau, paine. Grotius (pg 30) 1583-1645 (cid:498)grotius based his beliefs on moral commitment to international justice(cid:499) 30. Served for the dutch government for a very long time http://plato. stanford. edu/entries/grotius/ Grotius as deeply concerned to refute scepticism about international law. Grotius was upset when the powerful french cardinal richelieu told him, nations. Which is valid alike for war and in war. I have had many and weighty reasons for undertaking to write upon this subject. Throughout the christian world i observed a lack of restraint in relation to war, such as even barbarous (cid:498)the weakest are always wrong in matters of state. (cid:499) Neo-kantian tradition -> re-establishes the universal foundations of human rights. Key thinkers: john rawls, moral constructivism, habermas, consensus and 4 validity claims: comprehensible, rightful, truthful, right.