Humanities Homework Help

Explain one sense in which the situation of displaced persons in the world today constitutes a political crisis (as opposed to a humanitarian crisis). 

Briefly explain the main difference between an internally displaced person and a refugee. Provide one example of each category in your response. 

In The Rights of Others, Seyla Benhabib uses the phrase “paradox of democratic legitimacy” to refer to what she describes as a “constitutive dilemma at the heart of liberal democracies.” Explain exactly what Benhabib means by the “paradox of democratic legitimacy.” 

As Seyla Benhabib explains in her presentation of Immanuel Kant’s Perpetual Peace, the German philosopher identified three articles or conditions for the establishment of perpetual peace. Identify and briefly one (and only one) of these conditions for perpetual peace. 

According to Seyla Benhabib, what is the main takeaway point of Hannah Arendt’s idea concerning the “right to have rights”? Specifically, what does Arendt’s idea tell us about political membership?