Ética y derecho

RESUMEN:El relativismo de la postmodernidad es incapaz de fundamentar racionalmente los derechos humanos. Así lo reconoce uno de los más destacados teóricos relativistas de los derechos humanos: Simon ChestermannTEXTUAL:On one view, the ends of modernity in securing universal recognition of norms born of the European Enlightenment have been subverted by the end of modernity and the concomitant ...

RESUMEN:A partir de Bobbio se ha extendido la idea de que los derechos humanos sólo pueden justificarse por un consenso entre los propios sujetos de los derechos humanos.TEXTUAL:In this article, I seek to open up the question of the foundation of human rights by reference not to their philosophical origins but their political function. (...). Recoge la idea de Bobbio: and the idea that rights a...

RESUMEN:It cannot be said that while natural law was at its most credible that human rights were more respected than they are nowCOMENTARIO:«It cannot be said that while natural law was at its most credible that human rights were more respected than they are now»(...) Hablando de Bobbio, dice: «This leads him [BOBBIO] to state that the fundamental problem of human rights ‘is not so much how to...

RESUMEN:Una convicción extendida entre los relativistas es la causa común frente a la civilización europea, e implícitamente al cristianismo: «For this was also the time when Europe sought to fulfil its ‘civilising mission’ by the application of a European truth onto the (presumed) blank slate of the world». No hay que mirar tanto al pasado -dice Chesterman- para justificar los derechos humanos...

RESUMEN:Se critica duramente la pretensión del iusnaturalismo clásico de fundamental los derechos humanos en la naturaleza. Se considera una especie de imperialismo cultural de Occidente.TEXTUAL:The idea that there exists a constant and discernible human nature would, if proved, provide the strongest foundation for truly ‘universal’ human rights.16 Not surprisingly, this has also proved to be o...