HUMAN RIGHTS Flashcards
These are titles or claims we have on other people or society
Human Rights
These are given to people by virtue or being members of society.
Civil Rights
These proceed directly from the nature of human persons as being born with dignity and relational.
Natural human rights
What is PACEM IN TERRIES 44?
If a man becomes conscious of his right, he must become equally aware of his duties.
What is PACEM IN TERRIS?
A social enciclycal containing a list of many types of human rights. It is the Catholic Church Magna Carta of Human Rights by John XXIII
This is Pope John Paul II’s first encyclical which he stressed the respect for human rights is he secret of true peace.
REDEMPTOR HOMINIS
What are the different personal rights?
Right to life
Right to one’s person
Right to one’s Personality
It is the most fundamental right
Right to life
It refers to our right over own bodies and bodily faculties and energies.
Right to one’s person
It is right to develop our own individual character.
Right to one’s personality
What are the different Religious/Moral rights?
Right to education
Right to conscience
Right to religion
It is both our duty and right to educate our conscience correctly and follow it all the time.
Right to conscience
We have the natural right to relate to God and to freely express and develop this relationship within the teachings and practices.
Right to religion
It is our right to avail of all possible means and opportunities to help us develop physically, intellectually, spiritually and socially.
Right to education
What are the different Social Rights?
Right to honor/respect
Right to freedom of speech
Right to organize
Human persons have a built-in natural right to at least a minimum respect from the members of their community.
Right to honor/respec
This right is a key element of a free society. As human persons, we should never be dominated or manipulated by anyone or by any state.
Right to freedom of speech
It is also an essential ingredient of a free society. Human persons have the right to form associations with common objectives, whether they are religious, civic, economic, social or political.
Right to organize
What are the Economic Rights?
Right to livelihood
Right to property
This right is the right to exclusive control of one’s own possessions.
Right to property
this right is a matter of life and death. To be denied of this right, through unemployment or unjust wages, would mean hunger and even death.
Right to livelihood
What are the Vocation rights?
Right to choose one’s way of life
Right to marriage
All human persons have the right to choose their career,
vocation and status in life.
Right to choose one’s way of life
This right of every person is to seek a partner in life and enter a union with the chosen person
Right to marriage
What is the Church’s View of Human Rights?
Universal
Inalienable
Inviolable
