Khaldun & The Creation of Human Rights

Dehumanization

The process of depriving a person or group of positive human qualities and resources.

Exploitation

Stealing the benefits of someone’s work. Depriving someone’s rewards of their work.

Ibn Khaldun

Lived in the 1300s, was apart of the Muslim faith, developed ground breaking theories and the discipline of math.

Khaldun was born in

Tunis, the son of academics

How did his family die?

Islam was faltering, the plague.

Khaldun was said to be…

Father of modern history, economics, and sociology

Why was he said to be the father of modern history, economics, and sociology?

Because of the scientific method. Utilized power of observation to predict outcomes.

Developed the idea of…

Assabiyyah

Social solidarity

Brought on the religious devotion and self sacrifice. Bonds with one another.

Assibiyah extends…

Affection and self-sacrifice

Within Assabiyyah, society is

Disciplined, and the ruler is just, adhering to religious doctrine

With each passing generation, Assabiyah…

weakens as the ruler or ruling elite becomes swayed by luxury and self indulgence

Social solidarity becomes

Unecessary for surivival

Self indulgence causes the ruler or elite to

Overtax the populace to fund their obsession with luxury

It takes __ generations to

3, to run its course. Then the corrupy civilization is overthrown, by a more disciplined group. Cycle renews.

Khaldun also came up with the Divison of

Labor

Division of Labor

Production is divided by small tasks

Subsistence Farming

Raised what you could to feed your family. Khaldun’s idea was to allow the community to develop crops and store grains, etc.

Dividing labor was better than one family producing because…

A community could produce more than enough to feed everyone by workers performing different tasks.

Surplus than creates wealth.

Adam Smith, so-called father of economics, hatches 300 years after Khaldun

Democracy can Extend Empire

Rule of Law. Voting and transition of government is like the destruction of Asibayyah, instead of a ruler being overthrown, they are voted out, and a new government takes over.

How do you know the destruction of Assibayyah is happening?

Threats becomes internal rather than external. Russia, USSR, Islamic countries, rice of domestic terrorism, countries begin to fight themselves

Destruction of Asibayyah can crush…

Democracy

Governments become a burden rather than…

An asset

Promote injustice rather than…

Justice

Abortion

Which right is sacrificed, which right is supported?

Right to life of the unborn versus…

Right to make decisions about a woman’s own body.