Human Rights and “natural” State in the Foundation of Rights

• Autor(a) principal: da Silva, André Luiz Olivier
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Sequência (Florianópolis. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/sequencia/article/view/2177-7055.2015v36n71p133

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2177-7055.2015v36n71p133This article intends to identify the metaphysical roots of projects of the foundation of human rights which incorporated genetically the doctrines of natural rights andcall for an individual and anterior state to life in society to justify rights that not positivizedin 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 naturalstate of men while questioning the methodological assumption of the individual – thefree 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 themetaphysics of natural rights.