CCEA Religion- Human Rights

Aristotle quote

‘Treat equals equally and unequals unequally’

Aquinas quote

‘All men are equal in liberty’

Locke + natural rights

‘For Locke, these are natural rights in that they are rights that are simply from human nature’

American Constitution

‘all men are created equal’

Gandhi quote

‘my idea of society, is that while we are born equal…all have not the same capacity’

The UN

established in 1945 / purpose to ‘reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person’

When was the UNDHR

1948

Eleanor Roosevelt quote

‘Where, after all, do human rights begin? In small places close to home’

MLK quote

‘I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the meaning of its creed… ‘all men are created equal’

Genesis quote on human rights

‘So God created man in his own image; in the image of God he created him’

Thomas Paine quote

‘Why then not trace the rights of man to the creation of man?’

Bible quote on dignity

‘You moulded me like clay… You gave me life’

Former archbishop of Canterbury, William Temple quote

‘there can be no rights of man except on the basis of faith from God’

2 Bible quotes on equality

‘you are all one in Christ Jesus’ / ‘do to others what you would have them do to you’

Stott quote on equality

Jesus ‘gave equal respect to all, whatever their social status. we must do the same’

St Paul quote on equality

‘if one part suffers, every part suffers with it'… Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it’

Corinthians quote on responsibility

‘those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable’

British Humanist Society quote

‘As humanists, we base our morality on the value of each and every human being’

Kant quote

the categorical imperative calls people to ‘act that you treat humanity… never merely as a means’

Gerwith quote

‘the ultimate purpose of the rights is to secure for each person a fundamental moral status’

Gerwith on the Golden Rule

he rejected the golden rule, using the example of a thief abusing ‘do to others as you would have them do to you’ → ‘you wouldn’t want to go to prison. How can you send me to prison?’

Bentham quote

rejected concept of natural rights - ‘simple nonsense… nonsense upon stilts’ / rights should only be upheld if they create the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest number

Marx on rights

natural rights promote inequality, this is because natural rights protect the rights of the bourgeois / theyre ‘impediments to full human emancipation’

Boaz quote

‘civilisation is not something absolute, but… is relative’ → it is wrong to claim that one set of human rights can be applied to all people at all times

Widdows on cultural relativism

‘non Western critique of human rights’ / human rights are not relevant to people in asia or africa who put more emphasis on ‘communal values, such as hard work, thriftiness and discipline’

Stott on cultural relativism

‘we cannot succumb to cultural relativism which may allow a nation to escape its human rights commitments because of its claim to have a difference culture’

Malala Yousafzai quote

‘when the world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful’

Bisan Owada quote

‘You are not innocent of what is happening to us… even if we die, the history will never forget’

UNDHR 2

‘everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this declaration, without distinction of any kind’

Three egs of human rights abuses

the untouchables / migrant hate crimes (at least 14 migrants have fled ballymena) / uyghyr muslims

What is forced marriage?

‘a marriage in which one or both spouses do not consent to the marriage and violence, threats or any other form of coercion is involved’

in 2015, how many forced marriages were there?

1220

the right to bear arms

in america, part of the constitution is ‘the right to bear arms’, however this leads to over 30,000 americans losing their lives in shootings each year / CA; sandy hook, 26 died at the hands of adam lanza