MORÁLNO-NORMATÍVNE ZDÔVODNENIE ĽUDSKÝCH PRÁV

• Authors: Foltin Martin

Title variants

EN

Moral-normative justification of human rights

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

This paper presents and analyses the moral-normative sources of human rights. In this article, we analyse the philosophical sources of human rights that relate to the question of why human beings should be holders of human rights, regardless of whether specific legal claims can be derived from them at the legal level. The paper addresses three main normative sources of human rights: (a) secular claims of human dignity; (b) claims based on human needs and human nature; and (c) transcendental claims. The article points out the limitations of these philosophical resources and suggests why it may be suitable to accept human rights based on a pluralistic notion of human nature.

Keywords

EN

HUMAN DIGNITY; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMAN NEEDS; HUMAN NATURE

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 76
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 46 – 58

Contributors

author

Foltin Martin

• Filozofický ústav SAV, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/filozofia.2021.76.1.4