Abstract

DELGADO PARRA, Concepción. Perplexities of human dignity within the human rights framework. Prax. filos. [online]. 2020, n.50, pp.161-186. ISSN 0120-4688.  https://doi.org/10.25100/pfilosofica.v0i50.8716.

This essay postulates that the notion of human dignity formulated philosophically and morally in modern Western civilization now demands a re-interpretation of meaning in light of the perplexities that lie in the dissonance between moral principles and the triable legal right of Human Rights in contemporary democracies. Although the notion of Human Rights derives from belonging to the human family in which the universality of its holders is ideally based and on the basis of the principle of autonomy, the result of this mixture translates into two problematic conceptions: an abstract one concerning the human being, in which an alleged universality is orchestrated that led to another individualistic one that turns men into selfish, isolated subjects. Identifying the core of this perplexity in Plato, Aristotle and Benhabib is the purpose of this reflection.

Keywords : human rights; human dignity; moral principles; legal rights; freedom of action.

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