HREQ 2010- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 16 pages long!)

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Human rights are unique in moral aspects. Human beings are special, being able to think in moral terms. Human rights can be analyzed in religious aspects. Religious can actually make human rights operate difficultly, especially for women. Practice of religions is the foundation of human rights. In the hebrew bible, we find that god created man in his own image. This means that humans have a likeness god, they have a spark of piece of divinity within them. People have to be treated with moral standards just like god. Leads to the questions of human free will. Human must be given the responsibility for their own decisions, and most of their decisions are mo ral decisions, otherwise their true intentions and personality is not revealed. If people are unable to make decisions, they will not be able to know who they are. People must be free to choose between good and evil.