PEACEST 2B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, Natural And Legal Rights, Moral Authority

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Peace Studies
• Course: PEACEST 2B03
• Professor: Samuel Ujewe

Document Summary

We should avoid conceptual connection of human rights with legal rights. It is possible to include certain legal rights in the object of a human right. Human rights are supposed to govern how all of us together ought to design the basic rules of our common life: this is why it makes more sense to speak of non-fulfillment or underfulfillment. Specification of human rights and responsibilities for their realization. Acceptable core criterion of human flourishing requires low specificity: respects autonomy of different cultures. Additional basic needs would be understood as secondary to the universal human needs recognized by the globally shared conception of human rights. Udhr human rights exist independently of itself: distinction to moral and legal human rights is barely drawn, many agree that our human rights are whatever gov"s agree them to be. How should moral rights be conceived: settling what human rights are requires not just a conceptual explanation but substantive moral arguments.