HR100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Political Philosophy, Negative And Positive Rights
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The rights one has because one is human: however often universal personhood is questioned and contested over many cultures. Therefore, the rights of the person are often contested. State perspectives: liberal democratic states: humans are distinct/separate beings with individual rights, collectivist/communitarian: reject autonomous human beings & perceive them as groups (rights of a population) Moral vs legal: legal entitlement individuals have the rights the body that produces the law is responsible to ensure the enforcement, moral entitlement typically referenced when discussing lack of legal rights that should exist. Individual vs collective rights: moral right vs legal right, responsibility. Declaration of independence & declaration of the rights of man as a citizen: rooted in christianity as sourced in god (western political philosophy) Nature law: set of concepts designed through god/nature which was understood by our ability to reason (how things should be) : ability to reason: to uncover duties we have to one another based on hobbes &
