Achievement requirements
Knowledge:
The students will have good knowledge of:
- The concept of rights and its role in normative reasoning in moral and political philosophy
- Different ways of justifying human rights
- Different philosophical approaches to the concept of human rights, and the debate over these approaches
- Questions concerning the legitimacy of human rights and the international human rights system
- Different debates in the philosophy of human right, notably concerning the conflict of rights, the feasibility of human rights, gender and human rights and the relation between human rights and relativism
Skills and general competence:
The students are expected to be able to:
- Critically relate to and discuss, both orally and in writing, current debates in the philosophy of human rights
- Write an essay with a clear argumentative structure which critically and analytically discusses questions in the philosophy of human rights