Synthesis philosophica, Vol. 24 No. 1, 2009.
Original scientific paper
Onto-theological Remains in 21st Century and the Anomaly in Functioning of the Human Rights. From the Question about “What” to the Question about “How” of the Human Rights
Rok Svetlič
; Ljubljana, Slovenia
Abstract
By the end of 18th century, when one of the well-known political documents, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, was enacted, it hasn’t been that difficult to find the answer to the question about “what” of the human rights, though then we acceded to the grounds of a basically different morals. One way or another, human rights were derived from reason, meaning from the ability which should be able to write “The Pure Reason Gospel”. A century and a half later, in 1948, such question not only had certain shortcomings, but in just a few years of practicing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights it became clear that searching for “what” of human rights opens numerous and profound dissidences every day. Therefore a strategic shift was suggested: to proclaim the question about “what” to be prevalent and commit ourselves to the “how” of human rights. Instead of positive assignment (What kind of thinking can answer to “what” of the human rights?), we suggest a negative assignment: What kind of thinking can negatively affect the “how” of human rights? In this enclosure, we need to show how postmodernism brought onto-theological thinking which acts like lenses that give us wrong perspective on human rights and therefore represents one of the biggest contemporary threats for human rights.
Keywords
philosophy of law; human rights; phenomenology; history of being
Hrčak ID:
41157
URI
Publication date:
29.7.2009.
Visits: 2.294 *