Listened to an excellent lecture on the problematic theme and discourse of "human rights". The following is a quick type up of a key point the professor made:
"Evolutionary social theories offered a vision of a unity of mankind. The evolutionary framework which humanity was placed in was further developed, esp by Herbert Spencer and produced the Victorian view that humans were produced by cultural evolution. It reformulated the essential unity of mankind"
"But Mankind was not one because it was everywhere the same, but because the differences represented different stages in the same process, by agreeing to call the process “progress”, one could convert the theory into a moral and political one. What had once been a narrow Christian civilization, was now in its secular form become the epitome of an all-inclusive humanity"
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