PL 201 Week 7 Assignment "Short Paper on Human Rights."

Short Paper on Human Rights.

Our class's final essay assignment requires you to reflect on the contemporary relevance of ancient codes, documents, and artifacts that contributed to the evolution of our modern conception of human rights. Your essay should answer these questions:

What, according to H. Gene Blocker, are the most important historical sources for our contemporary conception of human rights? To what extent, if at all, can you identify in contemporary culture and government specific legacies of any of the ancient codes, documents, and artifacts we studied this week? Please ensure that your essay addresses each component of both assigned questions and that your answer is well-organized, uses excellent, college-level prose, and makes judicious use of textual evidence. Your essay should be 600-900 words long.

PL201 Introduction to Philosophy Assignments and Discussions

- PL201 week 1 Discussion Introduction to Philosophy "Socrates's Philosophical Life"

- PL 201 week 1 1 Assignment - Introduction to Philosophy - Short Paper on Socrates

- PL201 week 2 discussion "Descartes' Method of Hyperbolic Doubt"

- PL 201 week 2 Assignment "Short Paper on Descartes"

- PL 201 Week 3 Discussion "Immanuel Kant's Epistemology"

- PL 201 Week 3 Assignment "Short Paper on Kant"

- PL 201 Week 4 Discussion "Aristotle's Conception of Virtue"

- PL 201 Week 4 Assignment "Short Paper on Aristotle"

- PL 201 Week 5 Discussion "Mill's Principle of Utility"

- PL 201 Week 5 Assignment "Short Paper on Mill"

- PL 201 Week 6 Assignment Short Paper On Locke

- PL 201 Week 7 Discussion "Universal Human Rights"

- PL 201 Week 7 Assignment "Short Paper on Human Rights."

- PL 201 Week 8 Discussion "What We Have Learned"

- PL 201 Week 8 Assignment Self-Evaluation