1)      What are the key characteristics of human rights?

2)      What does it mean that human rights are equal rights?

3)      What does it mean that human rights are inalienable rights?

4)      What does it mean that human rights are universal rights?

5)      What is the functional universality of human rights?

6)      Explain the relationship between human rights and cultural relativism.

7)      Explain the distinction between human and natural rights.

8)      Explain the distinction between human and fundamental rights.

9)      Are there any categorical differences between political and social rights?

10)   Which duties entail all human rights according to Henry Shue?

11)   What is the difference between instrumental and non-instrumental human rights justification
theories?

12)   What is the difference between monistic and pluralistic human rights justification theories?

13)   What are the main theories of human rights justification?

14)   Explain the religious justification of human rights.

15)   What is foundationalism?

16)   What is normative agency?

17)   Explain the difference between Alan Gewirth's approach and James Griffin's approach.

18)   What is characteristic of justifying human rights by the concept of basic needs?

19)   What are the basic needs?

20)   What is characteristic of justifying human rights by the concept of capabilities?

21)   Explain Richard Rorty's approach to human rights.

22)   Explain the political conceptions of human rights.

Summarizing question: What are human rights?