Human Rights and “natural” State in the Foundation of Rights
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https://doi.org/10.5007/2177-7055.2015v36n71p133Abstract
http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2177-7055.2015v36n71p133
This article intends to identify the metaphysical roots of projects of the foundation of human rights which incorporated genetically the doctrines of natural rights and
call for an individual and anterior state to life in society to justify rights that not positivized
in law. Based on the contractarian model of thinkers like Thomas Hobbes, the present article investigates the notion of “nature” contained behind the laws governing the natural
state of men while questioning the methodological assumption of the individual – the
free and rational human being – to legitimize the formulation of moral judgments and, especially, the enunciation of rights as human rights. The paper intended to show, in the end,
that it makes no sense to approach human rights from the traditional notion of “nature”,
as human nature is constituted from a collective context, and not from the individual – although the contemporary discussion about human rights is completely contaminated by the
metaphysics of natural rights.
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