GLOBL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Genocide Convention, Eurocentrism, Neoliberalism
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Moral means similar treatment in equality, dignity, fairness, justice, etc cent. showed a sense of individuality in their audience subjects mostly regular people rather than noble, royalty. Assumptions behind human rights: all to equal moral consideration, human rights is a language that tries to make this intuition legal, negatively, differences in people is morally irrelevant , positively, being treated the way one wants to be treated. Implications of ihr revolution: not eurocentric but, was evil response that europe was guilty of (genocide) Paradox of ihr revolution countries that wanted to creates this revolution who wanted to defend it didn"t practice what they preached! in 1948: usa racial segregation, gender, ethic, sexual and job discrimination. Ex: usa: housing/ education/ voting restrictions states started to like the moral values, like individual rights which thus fueled civil and women rights in us. Ihr revolution created human rights culture: and fuel anti-colonial revolutions in other countries.
