Thursday, January 25, 2018

Week One, January 26: Some questions for discussion...

We'll begin but exploring these questions, and probably more, as time permits...


- What are "Universal Human Rights" - how do we know we have rights?  Who gets rights and who doesn't?  Who gets to decide those questions? What do we make of the claims of "cultural relativism as challenges to that universality" e.g., sharia law?  
- What is suffering?  Is feeling injustice the only means of understanding injustice? What have your experiences of injustice been? 
- The Prison of Identity; what is Identity and how do WE identify?  What are the positives and negatives of "Identity" and belonging? Why do we seem to push to identify an "Other" among us?  
- How is Multiculturalism re-shaping Identity politics around the world?

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