Introduction to Political Theory

Free to believe? A rticle 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) states that ‘everyone has the right to freedom ...

Human rights after Nuremberg A ‘human right’ can be defined as an entitlement to treatment a person has simply by virtue of bein ...

The tu quoquedefence was removed – ad hominem tu quoquemeans ‘at the person, you too’ and effectively amounts to the defendant ...

to some form of political rhetoric that is based neither on legal nor moral grounds? If human rights equate to certain legal rig ...

religions and cultures tackle the climb from different sides of the mountain, such that they cannot see one another or recognise ...

European Convention on Human Rights (1950) The European Convention on Human Rights – officially the Convention for the Protectio ...

Article 10 is concerned with freedom of expression, but this is then limited by various considerations, including ‘national secu ...

meaning that the fulfilment of the right cannot require impossible actions. To use a slightly silly example, if you have a 100 p ...

universality with absoluteness. A human right is a consideration that must always be taken into account irrespective of cultural ...

Intuition and consensus (Donnelly) Jack Donnelly, in his book Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice (2003), defends what ...

American Michael Fay was convicted by a Singaporean court of vandalising hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of property. He ...

However, there is a considerable body of international law, such as commercial law, which states respect without recourse to a g ...

while it may not grant the freedoms to individuals enjoyed in a liberal society, in a fundamental sense all citizens are treated ...

its laws; implicit in Fuller’s argument is a belief in human rights, to which he is offering a logical entailment defence. Of co ...

of individual rights at the expense of cultural interaction, or we maintain the authority of the collective over the individual. ...

under a duty not to kill you – then we could, Finnis suggests, just as well say that there are no rights outside the state. Whil ...

entertainment, and people often have sex for pleasure rather than procreation. Overall, even if Finnis is right to argue that th ...

Did [Danes and Italians] say, about their Jewish neighbors, that they deserved to be saved because they were fellow human beings ...

protected from external pressure but not at the price of suppressing the freedom of its adherents to leave. It follows from this ...

References Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (European Convention on Human Rights): http:// ...