Kant's theory of human rights

Caranti, Luigi

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“…U podstaw zderzenia kultury wartości postmodernistycznego Zachodu i wartości azjatyckich leży długowieczna tradycja Azji, zgodnie z którą jedność i harmonia grupy jest ważniejsza od autonomii jednostki. Na Zachodzie wielu znajduje uzasadnienie praw człowieka w filozofii Immanuela Kanta [Caranti 2014]. Jednak kantowska etyka jako uzasadnienie projektu praw człowieka, z wyraźnym podkreśleniem autonomii jednostki jako niezmiennej podstawy godności i wartości człowieka, nie spotyka się z odzewem w Azji:…”

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Why Rights are Wrong in ASEAN and Beyond: A Critique of the Foundations of Universal Human Rights

Scarnecchia

2020

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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a battleground, one theatre in what Pope Francis has referred to as a “World War” where universal human rights, ersatz rights, and Asian values clash. Its people seek to escape old style Asian dictators while at the same time ward off a new ideological colonisation. Part One of this article provides a brief overview of the development of ASEAN and its human rights mechanisms. Part Two then examines whether the original axiomatic listing of human rights or an iteration of human rights founded upon the human genome or a Kantian underpinning can legitimise human rights and, if not, whether reference to the human soul made in the image of God with its natural law may substantiate the human rights project, perhaps, articulated as congruent with the purpose and design courts now recognise in the natural laws found in every ecosystem of nature. Part Three contends that aspects of the public trust doctrine, i.e., the natural use principle and the precautionary principle, are analogous to natural law principles and, because ‘the book of nature is one”, these environmental law principles may help jurists to recognise a theory of natural law liability in order to promote and defend authentic human rights. Finally, the author recommends that NGOs of Catholic Inspiration should, when appropriate, appeal to immaterial realities, God and the human soul, as a firm foundation of human rights and, also, when appropriate, advance in domestic, regional and international venues a theory of natural law liability based on environmental law principles in order to promote and defend authentic human rights.

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Why Rights are Wrong in ASEAN and Beyond: A Critique of the Foundations of Universal Human Rights

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2020

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“…This has, however, little significance because in the Metaphysics of Morals he follows more closely Montesquieu by distinguishing between the "ruling power (or sovereignty) in the person of the legislator, the executive power (in the person of the individual who governs in accordance with the law), and the judicial power (which allots to everyone what is his by law) in the person of the judge (potestas legislatoria, rectoria et judiciaria). "(MS, 6:313).5 On Kant's theory of innate rights seeCaranti (2011).…”

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A linguagem em Kant. A linguagem de Kant.

Hulshof¹,

Marques²

2018

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“… 12. It is debatable whether Kant’s notion of Menschenrechte is equivalent or sufficiently similar to the contemporary notion of human rights. For a reconstruction of the closest thing we have to a theory of human rights in Kant, see Caranti (2011). …”

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How cosmopolitanism reduces conflict: A broad reading of Kant’s third ingredient for peace

Caranti

2017

Journal of International Political Theory

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Kant's theory of peace has been reinterpreted under one of the most influential research programs of our times: The so-called democratic peace theory. In particular, the third ingredient of Kant's "recipe" for peace-the cosmopolitan right to visit-has been recognized as a powerful and effective instrument to reduce militarized interstate conflicts. In the hands of political scientists, however, this ingredient has often become nothing more than a set of rules for securing and facilitating international trade and economic interdependence. This article argues that this narrow reading mistakes international trade as the essence of the third definitive article. Kant sees economic interdependence as a means to realize what cosmopolitan right is truly about, that is, the affirmation of a set of rules for protecting humans qua humans, the creation of communal bonds among individuals beyond national or group loyalties, and the promotion of a global moral conscience modeled on the natural rights of man. An accurate understanding of cosmopolitan right is essential to avoid the popular-yet mistaken-idea that Kant sees progress towards peace as possible without individuals' and peoples' moral progress.

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Kant's theory of human rights

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Why Rights are Wrong in ASEAN and Beyond: A Critique of the Foundations of Universal Human Rights

Why Rights are Wrong in ASEAN and Beyond: A Critique of the Foundations of Universal Human Rights

A linguagem em Kant. A linguagem de Kant.

How cosmopolitanism reduces conflict: A broad reading of Kant’s third ingredient for peace

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