Rights (Unit 3)

Question 1

What is a ‘right’?

Answer 1

Non-negotiable claim

Question 2

Historical and modern use of the word ‘right’?

Answer 2

Historically: Used to be seen as claims that could only be made by certain important/special people

Current: As time went on, the idea of rights expanded and people began to view rights as things all individuals have

Question 3

What rights do we have?

Answer 3

Different countries and organizations will usually list the rights of their citizens/members in their constitutions, different from place to place (no clear agreement of Universal rights)

Question 4

What are the two places that rights can come from?

Answer 4

Rights are natural/God given, and rights are a social creation

Question 5

What does the argument of
rights being natural/God given mean?

Answer 5

Rights are a part of who and what we are, they are granted by God/by our personhood
- Strong, the roots are fundamental and powerful

Question 6

Problem with the rights are natural/God given argument?

Answer 6

Hard to see clearly which rights are truly given to us by God and nature since, no clear agreement of what our rights are

Question 7

What does the argument of rights being a social creation mean?

Answer 7

They’re an expression of the values that exist in our society, we have rights based on their cultural/social value
- Deals with knowing what rights we have, as it explains we have can/can’t have the rights society chooses