ANTH 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Genocide Convention, Jacques Maritain, Eurocentrism

• School: McGill University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 222
• Professor: Ronald Niezen

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Exploration of the ideas that lie behind human rights (niezens own experiences: an emerging universal sense in human rights- with reference to certain key themes is social theory (e. g. social community) - of what justice is, ex. Liberty in north korea": there is a failure in liberty in north korea. Human rights is a product of the post world war 2 institutionalization of human rights through the universal declaration of human rights 1958 + genocide convention + International government of civil and political rights: many go back to the enlightenment to nd what truly de ned the human, the one emerging out of the age of exploration. You can solve the problems of humanity through the use of science. The real authority of justice lies within the common humanity, not the elite: this questions the church, state, class division, superstition, prejudice, poverty, and vice as opponents of reasons.