PLS 105 Study Guide - Winter 2019, Comprehensive Final Exam Notes - United Nations, Human Rights, Universal Declaration Of Human Rights
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Us- everyone is born, born human and has rights- life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness when we are born. French: government"s responsibility to protect rights and if they do not, people can have a revolution. Born and remain free and equal in rights: liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression. Supreme being and sacred rights: thomas paine- rights of man, examples of paine making a natural rights argument, creation ii. Natural rights don"t exist, made up fiction: b. burke(conservative) rights are determined by convention. Must consider in the context of society, government, and tradition. They do not come out of nowhere they have to fit into one of the categories: k. marx(communist) rights are the rights of the bourgeoisie. Equal moral worth i: human dignity, man was made in the image of god- old liberal, modern- shared human characteristics- autonomy and choice. Human capacity for rationally purposive agency is determined to be the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.
