PBA306H: Human Rights

maybe 400-level special topics seminar, to get into the weeds here…

• natural rights versus legal rights
  • What Ainslie missed (use debate footage)
• hierarchy of rights
  • Maslow hierarchy of needs

does this precede or follow first premise objections? Does it undermine the humanity of a pre-born child, or justify killing an innocent human being?

• Natural and legal rights
• materialist objections to human rights – and responses to that materialism https://www.wordonfire.org/articles/are-human-rights-just-fictional-stories/?fbclid=IwAR2W1jN-avy2YwVOUSOeMeBpDNfnwprkrIa_laP2s-mCEDeI31m6WdGJ8aM Yuval Noah Harari: ““Human rights, just like God and heaven, are just a story that we’ve invented. They are not an objective reality; they are not some biological effect about homo sapiens. Take a human being, cut him open, look inside, you will find the heart, the kidneys, neurons, hormones, DNA, but you won’t find any rights. The only place you find rights are in the stories that we have invented and spread around over the last few centuries. They may be very positive stories, very good stories, but they’re still just fictional stories that we’ve invented.”