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Lecture 13A: Ethics & Rights (1), Ethics: A set of moral principles…

- - - - Fundamental rights:
        
        right to life, right to bodily integrity, right to liberty and movement (basic conditions to control their direction of life)
        
        rights to freedom of thought, conscience and religion (gives individuals the freedom to determine how to best lead their lives → giving their lives a meaning)
      - Political and civil rights:
        
        right to freedom of expression and demonstration, right to vote and participate in free and fair elections (serve as a check on the power of state, preventing arbitrary and unjust infringement on the more fundamental rights)
    - - Conditions
        
        When overwhelmingly important human interest are at stake
        
        When the exercise of rights violates another person's rights