https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhRBsJYWR8Q Human rights today have the kind of status that the divine right of kings had in the Middle Ages. 0:05 They are so deeply ingrained in our political thinking, 0:09 that imagining a society without them seems almost impossible. 0:14 We all know the famous line from the Declaration of Independence: 0:17 "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, 0:22 that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights," 0:27 But we should beware of what seems self-evident. 0:29 In many cases, what seems self-evident is less an indication of what is correct or indubitable, 0:36 and more an indication of our biases, an effect of the time and place we live in. 0:41 One of the most influential liberal political philosophers of the 20th century, John Rawls, once even stated that: 0:48 "Human rights are not the consequence of a particular philosophy, 0:52 nor of one way among others of looking at the
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