W7 Discussion “Universal Human Rights”

W7 Discussion “Universal Human Rights”

Please construct a lively academic discussion of the following question. As you do this, please remember to make effective
use of textual evidence from our excerpt from Blocker’s “Human Rights” (pp. 413-422).

• What, according to H. Gene Blocker, are the most important historical sources of the idea that all humans possess inalienable rights? To what extent, if at all, do you see those sources reflected in contemporary culture?