| Popis: |
Against some sceptical and relativistic objections an attempt is made to demonstrate that the idea of human rights is a necessary assumption which can be justified by anthropological and transcendantal arguments. The concept of human rights being defended here tries to avoid the mistakes of ethnocentricsm in that it does not presuppose specific conditions of perfection, but only the original conditions for being human. These basic conditions are further specified as conditions of agency. Since everybody must have an interest in maintaining one's own agency and thence in fulfilling the appropriate conditions for achieving this end, these necessary interests have a sort of transcendantal character. An analysis of these transcendantal interests can help to define which human rights we can legitimately assume to exist. |
