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Classical Stuff You Should Know

235: Human Rights

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

4.5696 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Human rights are oft trumpeted, but who really knows what they are? Where do they come from? How do they exist? Who gets them? Can I have one?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to classical stuff.

0:10.7

You should know a podcast about philosophy and books and history and things that we have found interesting recently.

0:19.1

My name is Thomas Magby.

0:20.4

I'm joined as always by Mr. Graham Donaldson.

0:22.7

Hello.

0:23.1

And Mr. A.J. Hannan.

0:24.3

Hey, you.

0:24.9

And today we are, you know, we've talked about I have two kids.

0:30.6

And, you know, I've been teaching my kid about, you know, which way is right and which way is left.

0:34.5

And so today, AJ is going to walk us through the history of directions,

0:38.0

which I'm really thankful for. So you're going to talk through just for humans, though. Yeah,

0:41.4

our human left. The human rights. And our human rights. Oh, my word. I'm very excited for this

0:45.3

episode. What a belabored pun. Hey, I got there eventually. We arrived. Okay, so yeah, I'm talking

0:52.1

about human rights today. And the reason I decided to do this is because people are often clamoring for their rights, right?

0:58.1

They say education is a human right, free health care is a human right, forgiveness of student debt is like there are all sorts of demands for a specific set of human rights, and I was wondering where they came from and what exactly they are.

1:10.0

So I have not

1:11.0

yet found their source material, like exactly where they came from, but I did study up on

1:16.9

what they are and how we currently see them. And the primary source I used for this was,

1:22.8

it's going to sound bad, but the online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. That shouldn't

1:27.1

sound bad. That resource is incredible. The place is amazing. The thing is,

1:30.2

it's the real deal. And I've talked to philosophy professors and I said, hey, is this a resource

1:33.9

that I can use when I'm investigating philosophy and attitude? And they say, yeah, it's awesome.

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