PL 201 Week 7 Discussion "Universal Human Rights"

Universal Human Rights

Please construct a lively academic discussion of the following question. As you do this, please remember to make effective use of textual evidence from our excerpt from Blocker's "Human Rights" (pp. 413-422).

What, according to H. Gene Blocker, are the most important historical sources of the idea that all humans possess inalienable rights? To what extent, if at all, do you see those sources reflected in contemporary culture?

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