"Taking the Human out of Human Rights" Human Rights or Group Rights?
Abstract
What interest me are the reasons why “human” or “human rights” could be important or possibly most important in constituting a group (hence the introduction of the complicated word “group” and “group right(s)” in the subtitle). If I had to justify the existence of the latest debates on nature, justification and universality of human rights, on their distinction from other normative standards, on the philosophy and (legal) foundation of human rights, on “Human Rights without (or with) Foundations” (Raz, Tasioulas, Besson), then I would immediately conclude that this “process of grandiose concretization” of a complete fabrication is far from over. Despite the innumerable pacts and international conventions established after World War II, the slew of obligations to which states have agreed in the last few decades, the establishment of rights to secession or humanitarian intervention it is as if the constitution of classification of basic human rights and their universality is far from ove...r.
Keywords:
human rights / group / group rights / declaration / international legal human rightsSource:
Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society, 2015, 703-709Publisher:
- Beograd : Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Projects:
- Studying climate change and its influence on environment: impacts, adaptation and mitigation (RS-43007)
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