HUMR 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Francisco De Vitoria, Hugo Grotius, Ninety-Five Theses

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Human Rights
• Course: HUMR 2001
• Professor: Tamara Kotar

Document Summary

Renaissance and reformation though and issues central to human rights. New focus on developing ideas of civil law and also of natural law. Catholic thinkers = natural law and natural rights. Francisco suarez focused on moral power that everyone has. Francisco de vitoria talked about what is just (in term of colonization) 95 theses critiques of catholic church teachings. Challenged dominant political and spiritual power at the time. Human nature and human thinking = unreliable and self-(cid:272)e(cid:374)tred, (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t deri(cid:448)e ethi(cid:272)al ideas fro(cid:373) (cid:449)hat humans say. No such things as natural rights but there are rights from society and custom, also from being human. Bridge natural law from religious to secular thought do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e to (cid:271)ase hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) rights off of religio(cid:374), but on social interaction figure out how to live together with or without a common god. A human community that claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.