Published 2013-11-28
Keywords
- Human rights,
- human nature,
- justification,
- rationalism,
- christianism
- criticism,
- universality. ...More
How to Cite
Possenti, V. (2013). Human Rights and Human Nature. Tópicos, Revista De Filosofía, 8(1), 33-47. https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v8i1.476
Abstract
There seems to be two different versions of human rights in Western tradition: say Rationalistic and Christian; the former adopted in revolutionary France, the latter highly developed in Renaissance Spain. Current relativistic criticisms attempt to deny the universality of human rights alleging that this theory has been created in Western countries or it has no strong justification, and therefore cannot have universal approach; but this objection can be dismissed with an alternative justification of human rights.