POL S212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Moral Equivalence, Individual And Group Rights, Michael Walzer
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We talked about the universal declaration of human rights: however universal this declaration may have been titled as or deemed as, there were some major problems with its application. The modern era and the development of hr - jack donnelly. Ever more powerful capitalist markets and sovereign, bureaucratic states gradually penetrated first europe and then the globe. Traditional communities, and their systems of mutual support and obligation, were disrupted, destroyed, or radically transformed, typically with traumatic consequences. These changes created the problem that human rights were. If we look at the end of 18th century after the american and french. Revolutions: there is a transformation of the understanding of rights . Western theory and practice was inspired by political legitimacy based on a notion of (political foundational) equal and inalienable rights of man. (89) but these were exclusionary not everyone was considered to equally bear these rights. Rights of man not women exclusively white men.