POL 507 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Biopolitics, Bioethics, Anthropocentrism
1 Mar 2021
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Rights is a term or concept that gets thrown around a lot and is a trump card in politics. Michael foucaut was interested in the way politics came to individual ppl. He was concerned with the implications of bioethics. Biopolitics is concerned with how it affects peoples everyday lives. Not only about assessing formal politics, but also informal power dynamics in society as well as the practical (poltical) applications of bioethics. This classication system is important because for the 1950s aniasml and humans were thought to be very different creatures. Through gradual development of modern science we began to understand the similaritesi between humans and animals. Like charles darwin, said humans were a part of animals. He specified just because natural selection and evolution happened, it doesn"t mean it would happen to humans. He said humans are not distinct from other animals but religion likes to separate these into 2 catergoies. Religious representaion of a chain of being.
