Are human rights universal or culturally determined

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Journal Entry is your personal response or reaction to the readings, or answer one or more of the following questions:

1. Are you convinced that there are "common values" of the international community as a whole (based on ethical, moral or religious teachings) that can limit acceptable behavior of states against other states or individuals worldwide? Give an example. Are human rights universal, or culturally determined? Does it matter which human rights you are discussing?

2. What were your reactions to the special guest event on Oct. 23rd?

3. Do you see the link between human rights (or denial of rights) and literature and the importance of empathy? [Optional on point: book by historian Lynn Hunt, Inventing Human Rights, A History, Chapter 1, "Torrents of Emotion, Reading Novels and Imagining Equality."]

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