PPA 125 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Age Of Enlightenment, Theism, Essentialism
24 Aug 2019
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Normative & theoretical foundations of human rights anthony langlois: human rights, and general rights appeared after european. Christianity, bible, god are the main foundation for all declarations. Enlightenment [equality, freedom, justice: then by 1600"s they decided to ordain form god and base it on basic humanity, in the end rights came down to politics. Edmund burke (reflecrions on the revolution in france) Bentham (anarchial fallacies: burke {c} said rights existed as an archimedean point beyond govt by the govt could be judged, thus wrong, marx = capitalist, hes annoying. Unhr 1948: udhr"s problem is the universal application; some just reject hr, rejection is related to cultural relativism, and imperialism. Cultural part says the rights are not respecting people"s identities but at the same time liberals are being illiberal because they expect everyone to be liberals//nonetheless its not relative enough. 2: human rights imperialism: uh read more on it, religious leaders often treat minorities/people with different opinions badly so theres that.
