Ethical foundations of Jacques Maritain’s and Michael Novak’s conception of human rights
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Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.2478/ebce-2023-0013" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.2478/ebce-2023-0013</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ebce-2023-0013" target="_blank" >10.2478/ebce-2023-0013</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Ethical foundations of Jacques Maritain’s and Michael Novak’s conception of human rights
Original language description
The aim of the contribution is to outline the ethical foundations in Maritain’s and Novak’s interpretation of human rights in a wider historical context and to assess its meaning for the present, with special regard to our Central European area. The issue of human rights has, in addition to its political aspect, an inherent ethical one. Fundamental human rights relate to the possibility of autonomy of a person as a moral being endowed with reason and striving for a meaningful life. Therefore, these rights have a fundamental role in practical life: however, they have also become an issue of speculative philosophy and theology, where the focus is upon concepts of freedom and reason. Jacques Maritain and Michael Novak were important figures in the advancement of human rights at the international level, with exceptional impacts especially in Central Europe. Both have their roots in Christian humanism, and for both their concept of human relations is derived from Biblical religion and love for one’s neighbour. Novak accepts Maritain’s concepts of a person and human dignity, and he tries to explain his own concept of democratic capitalism in accordance with it.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60302 - Ethics (except ethics related to specific subfields)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ethics & Bioethics (in Central Europe)
ISSN
1338-5615
e-ISSN
2453-7829
Volume of the periodical
13
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3/4
Country of publishing house
PL - POLAND
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
127-137
UT code for WoS article
001121675100010
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85186585330