DVM 2105 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Natural Law, Social Contract, Leviathan
12 Oct 2018
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DVM 2105
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Fall 2018
Part two
Why is the study of people’s ights ipotat?
Three introductory notes
1. The doctrine of rights protects individual persons against their government,
2. It coordinates a peaceful life in the plural societies,
3. This right is related to persons who are bound up with the respect for the individual
rights of their fellow citizens.
Definitional aspects – a moral definition
Moally appoed atios = ighteousess…..
The UN Charter: ... to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of
the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small
Uiesal Delaatio of Hua Rights: …eogitio of the iheet digity ad of the eual
and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice
ad peae i the old….
❑ Cosmopolitan in scope,
❑ Freedom from suffering,
❑ Association with justice and peace.
Definitional aspects - A legal definition
Legal entitlements that people expect from their governments
1. The rule of law and equality against law,
2. Association with the social rights,
Achievements and not ascription
To be treated equally, in fairness, and without discrimination
Requires politics of universalism
Respect for common and sharable values that are practiced in the public
sphere
It is equated with secularism.
Definitional aspects - Political meaning
Political rights = democratic rights
The Charter of Rights and freedoms – atile 3: ey itize of Caada has the ight to ote i
an election of members of the House of Commons or of a legislative assembly and to be
ualified fo eeship theei.
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Democratic rights,
❑ Right to criticize the government
❑ Right to holed public offices
❑ Right to assemble
❑ Right to hae you soial goup ad paty…
Definitional aspects – economic rights
1. Right to freely pursue economic interests. This is the central theme of economic
liberalism.
2. It addresses the needs,
3. Is there a limitation to the economic rights?
4. Think about capitalism:
Morally responsible capitalism,
Social capitalism,
Unbridled capitalism: neo-liberalism,
Mixed economies.
1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, article 1: All peoples have
the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status
and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.
It is a contested term
1. Different interpretations:
o What is the meaning of dignity
o Equality or equity?
o Negative and positive liberties/rights
2. Association with justice:
o Just peaceful scheme for all
o Indivisibility of the rights
o National – international interplay
3. Marxists also believe in the doctrine of rights,
4. What about the communitarians?
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