The Problem of Recognition of Human Rights: Does Explicative-Existential Justification Really Work?
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14220%2F21%3A00119071" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14220/21:00119071 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://archiwum.ivr.org.pl/4602/explicative-existential-justification-of-human-rights-analysis-of-robert-alexys-argument-in-context-of-is-ought-problem/" target="_blank" >https://archiwum.ivr.org.pl/4602/explicative-existential-justification-of-human-rights-analysis-of-robert-alexys-argument-in-context-of-is-ought-problem/</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.36280/AFPiFS.2021.2.5" target="_blank" >10.36280/AFPiFS.2021.2.5</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Problem of Recognition of Human Rights: Does Explicative-Existential Justification Really Work?
Original language description
This paper analyses Robert Alexy's explicative-existential justification of human rights. The author identifies several problems that are associated with it. An analysis of Alexy's explicative argument suggests that it cannot cope with the transition from facts to norms. Notably, this argument does not explain why its requirements cannot be overruled by some other moral reason (for example, the utility principle). The answer that Alexy offers in his existential argument is not considered sufficient by the author of this paper. Although this argument complements the necessary normative premises, the existential decision preferred by Alexy is not the only one necessary. It can be admitted that for many people such a decision is attractive. However, even if we accept that explicative-existential justification is credible in some context, it is correct to apply it only to the rights of persons and not to the rights of human beings. In the final part, the author shows that the claim that this theory can justify even the rights of human beings who are not persons is indefensible.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50501 - Law
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA20-10464S" target="_blank" >GA20-10464S: Contextual Relations of Justification of Human Rights as a Problem of Legal Philosophy</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej: Journal of the Polish Section of IVR
ISSN
2082-3304
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
27
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
PL - POLAND
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
5-15
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85147469440