A Difficult Legacy: Human Dignity as the Founding Value of Human Rights

A Difficult Legacy: Human Dignity as the Founding Value of Human Rights

The success of human rights seems to stem crucially from the fact that they were never backed by a substantive account of human nature and the worth, value, or status of a human being. Human dignity did feature in the founding human rights documents,but it was left undefined and its relation to huma...

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Veröffentlicht in:Human rights review (Piscataway, N.J.) N.J.), 2018-09, Vol.19 (3), p.313-329
1. Verfasser: Łuków, Paweł
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Development Aid
Education
Equality and Human Rights
Founding
Human dignity
Human nature
Human Rights
Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Social Justice
Social Philosophy
Terrorism and Political Violence
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Zusammenfassung:The success of human rights seems to stem crucially from the fact that they were never backed by a substantive account of human nature and the worth, value, or status of a human being. Human dignity did feature in the founding human rights documents,but it was left undefined and its relation to human rights was not specified. Thus,human rights defined a sphere of liberty of individual choice.
ISSN:1524-8879
1874-6306
DOI:10.1007/s12142-018-0500-z