Human Rights Flashcards
5 major rights
1) Personal Rights
2) Religious and Moral Rights
3) Social Rights
4) Economic Rights
5) Vocation Rights
Claims, titles or powers to:
Do, accomplish, possess or dispose of something to have dignified life
Human Rights
Law that encompasses the nature of human beings
Free, Relational, Historical, Unique yet fundamentally equal, Rational
Natural Law
Bu grounding our human rights ultimately on God, the Church provides us with incomparable contributions to our work for promoting human rights
Church’s View
Secondary to our natural human rights, they are derived from our human rights to:
Help, respect, protect and promote our dignity
Civil Rights
Under personal rights
1) Right to LIFE
2) Right to ONE’S PERSON
3) Right to ONE’S PERSONALITY
Under religious and moral rights
1) Right to EDUCATION
2) Right to CONSCIENCE
3) Right to RELIGION
Under social rights
1) Right to HONOR and RESPECT
2) Right to FREE EXPRESSION
3) Right to ORGANIZE
Economic Rights
1) Right to LIVELIHOOD
2) Right to PROPERTY
Vocation Rights
1) Right to CHOOSE ONE’S WAY OF LIFE
2) Right to MARRIAGE
This is the most fundamental right
Primary condition of all other human rights for the reason that only when persons are alive they can exercise their other rights
Right to Life
We have a right over our own bodies
God created us as embodied spirits to enable us to carry out our tasks in the physical world
Right to one’s person
This is our right to develop our own individual character
Right to one’s personality
This is our right to avail of all possible means and opportunities to help us develop physically, intellectually, spiritually and socially
Right to Education
The right to follow that inner voice which help us judge what is morally good or evil
Right to Conscience
