The grammar of rights and the grammar of needs

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2019-0027" target="_blank" >10.1515/humaff-2019-0027</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The grammar of rights and the grammar of needs

Original language description

In his article, the author deals with the grammar of rights and the grammar of needs from the point of view of social, political and moral philosophy in the contexts of debates in Latin America and Europe. He explains in his analysis that the Brazilian poor usually do not understand their situation as being due to social injustice, and do not seem to think that their rights have been somehow violated. He sketches the historical reasons for this phenomenon and then shows, in cases like the Brazilian one, an abandonment of the grammar of rights for the grammar of needs which can corresponds better to the experience of the poor. He further distinguishes between grammar and language of rights and claims that the latter is often used to disguise a disrespect for the former that cannot be easily detected, making the recurrences to a different grammar, that of needs, even more desirable. The topics discussed in these papers show how controversial the notion of human rights still is and yet how central it remains for philosophical reflection as well as for the legal and political sphere. It raises issues that are relevant from the perspective of ethics, of political philosophy, of legal philosophy and of social philosophy. It serves to criticize existing conditions as well as to imagine possible future situations in which individuals could be more autonomous and emancipated. This special issue represents a contribution to the lively and plural debate about such issues. Does it still have the inspiring force that made it possible for the grammar of human rights to become dominant almost all over the world, even when and where its universal character was contested in the name of some regional or specific language of rights? Does it need to be widened in order to include rights that were inconceivable in 1948? The text tries to answer these and other questions connected to the idea of human rights. Although the idea is very old, and has been widely discussed by moral, political and legal philosophers as well as, more recently, by law theorists, historians, sociologists and anthropologists, its content still divides scholars and governments, and the courts and institutions of civil society. No consensus has been reached about what status human rights have or about the precise meaning of the adjective “human.” The article is an important contribution to the special issue of Human Affairs which the paper’s author edited. The article and the thematic issue are based on the unique academic cooperation between European and Latin American scholars. The articles analyses in the innovating way the issue of human rights in comparative global perspectives. It significantly contributes to contemporary discussions of this burning issue.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Human Affairs

ISSN

1210-3055

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

29

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

328-338

UT code for WoS article

000480414700006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85070877418