Human Rights: Justice, Reason, Intellect and Participation

Syllabus

Human rights as an idea;

Human rights in the antiquity;

Human rights in the Bible;

History of the theory of Human rights;

Several justifications for Human rights;

Some recent cases in human rights problematics.

Teaching human rights - support from the EU - basic materials for teaching human rights issues in schools

Annotation

Human Rights: Justice, Reason, Intellect and Participation is a subject about the theory of the human rights idea. Students will discuss various backgrounds of this idea during the history of Western civilization.

The aim is to know how different philosophical positions can motivate diverse theories of law and norms and to understand the historical backgrounds of several theories of human rights.