The Transcendence of Human Rights

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29327/2193997.1.1-4

Keywords:

human rights, transcendence, worldview, axiological ontologism, christianity

Abstract

There are immediate consequences in the adoption of a monistic or dualistic worldview for the concept of human. The discovery of what it is to be a human begins in the communitarian being, when man realizes his attribute of making culture and it is in this that his value is revealed. The emergence of human rights sharply in the Western world has its roots in the contribution brought by Christianity. Human rights are transcendent and are only justified in an axiological ontology that gives man attributes that transcend matter.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biography

Antonio Carlos Fontes Cintra, Universidade Mackenzie DF

Defensor Público do Distrito Federal, pós-doutor pelo Regent College – University of British Columbia,doutor em Direito Privado pela Universidade de Lisboa, mestre pela Umesp, pós-graduado em Processo Civil pela Unisul, professor do Mackenzie-DF e da Escola Superior da Magistratura.

References

AXFORD, Barrie; BROWNING, Gary K; HUGGINS, Richard; ROSAMOND, Ben; TURNER, John. Politics – An introduction. New York: Routledge, 2005.

BENN, S.I. A theory of freedon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

BROAD, Charlie Dumbar. Ethics and the History of Philosophy. London & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1952., pp. 195-217.

DENNETT, Daniel C. Freedom Evolves. Nova York: Penguin group, 2004.

ELLIOT. A. Concepts of the self. Cambridge: polite press, 2001.

GANDRA, Ives, A tridimensionalidade realiana, in Revista do Advogado, nº 61, p. 51-52, 2000.

GAY, Craig M. ELLUL, Jacques. Christian Identity in the technological society. In: Sources of the Christian Self, org. James M Houston e Jens Zimmermann. Grand Rapids, Michigan William B Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2018.

KAVANAUGH, John F. Who counts as persons? : human identity and the ethics of killing. Washington, D. C.: Georgetown University Press, 2001.

MCLEAN, Stuart D. Humanity in the thought of Karl Barth. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1981.

MOONEY. Annabelle. Human rights and the body. Surrey: Ashgate publishing limited, 2014.

MOYN, Samuel. Christian Human Rights. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.

RAWLS, John. A brief inquiry into the meaning of sin and faith. Cambridge: Harvard University press, 2009.

REALE, Miguel. Filosofia do Direito. São Paulo: Saraiva, 1999.

REALE, Miguel. Direito Natural/Direito Positivo. São Paulo: Saraiva, 1984.

REALE, Miguel. Fundamentos Do Direito. São Paulo, RT, 1940.

REALE, Miguel. O Direito como Experiência. São Paulo, Saraiva, 1992.

REALE, Miguel. Teoria Tridimensional do Direito, 5ª Ed. São Paulo: Saraiva, 2000.

Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976).

ROBINSON. Howard. Substance dualism and its rationale. In: free will and modern science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

SANCHES, Reuben. Persona and Decorum in Milton’s Prose. Madison: Fairleigh Dickson, 1997.

SWINBURNE, Richard. Mind, brain & free will. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

TWAIN, Mark. The works of Mark Twain. What is man? and other philosophical writings. Los Angeles: The University of California Press, 1973.

WEGNER, Daniel M. The illusion of conscious will. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2018.

Published

2019-05-22

How to Cite

Cintra, A. C. F. (2019). The Transcendence of Human Rights. Journal of Brazilian Federal District Public Defensorship, 1(1), 59–68. https://doi.org/10.29327/2193997.1.1-4