HUMAN RIGHTS

human dignity having universal equal natural rights regardless of legal jurisdiction
set of standards that guarantee a life that fit rational human being
CHARACTERISTICS:
- inherent (essential)
- universal
- indivisible (enjoyed in full)
- inalienable (cant be taken away)
TYPES
• personal rights
right to life
right to one’s person (self defense)
right to one’s personality
• religious & moral rights
right to education
right to conscience
right to religion
• social right
right to honor & respect
right to organize
right to freedom of expresison
• economic rights
right to livelihood
right to property
• vocation rights
right to choose one’s way of life
right to marriage

JUSTICE = LAYS SOLIDARITY

treating others as god himself
empowers our rights
sets fundamental and harmonious relationship & peace and order to society
TYPES
• commutative justice (commutare = w change)
requires both party to receive the agreements (exchange is protected):
workers & employers
contractual justice: regulates exchange of guds that take place according to
agreements
• contributive/legal justice
responsibility of citizens to contribute to the betterment of society
(relation of society to members)
laws & legal documents
just distribution to members of earth’s resources
• social justice
encompasses all
a justice regarding d society and treatment based on our belief about
human dignity
ex: treatment, prevent corruption, accctability, equality

JUST LAW
1. ordinance of reason
2. properly promulgated
3. made by competent authorities
4. for the common good
TYPES
• natural law
the universal truth, upholds our dignity & others’
it posses universality (for all), unity & invariability (equal basic rights),
immutability (unchangeable)
• divine law
law of God, moral teachings of Jesus (testaments, torah, decalogue,
parables, beatitudes)
love one another
• church law
laws based on authorities of the church/ecclasiastical authority (pastoral,
papal letters, encyclical, canon law: body of laws & regs)
• civil law
ph constitution
it is enforceable, limited to a particular group, historically conditioned