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For the category of the individual to make its appearance — the prerequisite for the birth of human rights — it was necessary to attribute a unique value to each human being, a soul which would connect it to God. Starting from the individual, it then became possible to think in terms of subjects; starting from subjects, in terms of subjective rights; and starting from subjective rights, in terms of human rights.
— Jul 10, 2024 07:44PM
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Gee
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the discourse concerning human rights is given straightaway as a moral certainty, as a universal truth, considered to impose itself everywhere by the fact of its universality alone. Its value does not thus depend on a democratic ratification. Better still, it can oppose it
— Jul 14, 2024 12:26PM
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If all men are equal, if they are all fundamentally the same, if they are all ‘men like others’, far from the unique personality of each of them being able to be recognised, they will appear, not as irreplaceable, but on the contrary as interchangeable.
— Jul 14, 2024 12:08PM
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the renewal of identitarian affirmations of all sorts, a compensatory reaction during the decline of national identities and the growing sclerosis of nation-states has set this subject once again as the order of the day.
— Jul 14, 2024 11:56AM
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If the men should be left free to do what they want as long as the use of their freedom does not encroach upon that of the others, why could not peoples of whom certain customs appear to us shocking or condemnable be left free to practice them as long as they do not seek to impose them on others?
— Jul 14, 2024 11:53AM
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If the rights have been ‘there’ always, present in the very nature itself of man, one may be surprised that only a small portion of humanity has perceived it, and that it has taken it so long to be perceived. How does one understand that the universal character of rights appeared as something ‘evident’ only in a particular society?
— Jul 14, 2024 11:48AM
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‘To attribute a special value or special rights to the members of the human species based on the sole fact that they are members of it’, writes Elvio Baccarini, ‘is a morally arbitrary position which cannot be distinguished from sexism, racism or ethnocentrism’.
— Jul 14, 2024 11:44AM
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We know that, historically, dignity, attributed to everybody, has replaced honour, which is only present in some
— Jul 14, 2024 11:38AM
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Law is what I must obey. It may confer on me certain benefits, here the immunity that my life, too, is to be respected; but fundamentally I am under law. By contrast, a subjective right is something which the possessor can and ought to act on to put it into effect.
— Jul 13, 2024 07:44PM
