HISTORY 3XX3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, Cultural Relativism, Norman Rockwell

• School: McMaster University
• Department: History
• Course: HISTORY 3XX3
• Professor: Bonny Ibhawoh

Document Summary

Paint: norman rockwell diversity of the people in the painting; basic expectations of how others should treat us. Trying to define human rights is problematic every human, equality, inalienable, liberty, freedom, justice, protection, guidelines, self-determination. Human rights are contingent on something: moral, legal etc Definition human rights: the basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled simply by virtue of their humanity. These include the right to liberty and life, freedom of thought and expression and equality before the law. Hr corpus: body of law/declarations the engine that makes human rights real. Hr movement the while scope: laws, organizations etc Udhr: bible of human rights: the bench mark new doctrine that brought about a whole new concept 1948. Rights (privileged/nobility) long tradition of rights but udhr unique because contingent on just being human! (others had to be more than just human to qualify for the rights) Some argue that human rights did not exist before 1948.