HUMAN RIGHT AS A SECULAR TRANSCENDENCE

• Authors: Filutowska K.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The authoress discusses a problem of human rights in the context of Kantian's ethical formalism and Socrates' ethical intellectualism. She refers to Girard's interpretation of Hiob's story according to which this biblical hero is a victim of so called collective mimetism, connected with a totalitarian situation or society created by a soul of crowd. On the contrary to this totalitarian type of community human rights have their origins in the conscience of individual, in reason or a subject. According to her interpretation they mediate between external and internal sphere, between legal and moral sphere (Kant) and also between 'loi' and 'droit' (S.Weil). In this way they give a possibility to establish a really just law which - thanks to the mediation done in a conscience of individual - includes an element of transcendence and rationality, so it isn't a blind force which could destroy an individual. For the authoress Socrates is an adherent of such kind of reflexive attitude - and thanks to his moral autonomy - is also a patron of human rights discours at all.

Keywords

EN

HUMAN RIGHTS

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydział Filozofii
• Journal: Edukacja Filozoficzna
• Year: 2006
• Issue: 42
• Pages: 67-84
• Document type: COMMUNICATION

Contributors

author

Filutowska K.

• K. Filutowska, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Filozofii, Zaklad Filozofii Spolecznej, ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 3, 00-047 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA01914080