On the concept of sovereignty; sovereignty the conceptual root of the fiction of human rights and the isolated individual. Part II Cover Image

Despre conceptul de suveranitate; suveranitatea rădăcină conceptuală a ficțiunii drepturilor omului şi a individului izolat. Partea a-II-a
On the concept of sovereignty; sovereignty the conceptual root of the fiction of human rights and the isolated individual. Part II

Author(s): Mihail M. Ungheanu
Subject(s): History of Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Philosophy of Law, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: modernity; theology; sovereignty; human rights;

Summary/Abstract: Some contemporany discourses and ideas have a long history that is forgoten, a history that should be know if one tries to understand some of the problems humanity is facing today in the era of globalization. The idea of sovereignity and the idea of human rights, that is sovereignty of the self-legislating and self-regulating autonomous individual, has a theological background. The main contention of this paper is to show that the concept of sovereignty has a clear theological origin and was meant to describe some atributes that belonged to God, then it was transfered on the human leader and to the state, thus becoming a concept of international relationships, and afterwards the concept was applied to the individual, which was being thought to be the bearer of sovereignty. This is a process that some contemporany thinkers have claimed to be nihilistic, because it provokes a divinization of man and human egoism, the distruction of our environment and social instability and of human relations, distruction of the family, being signs of this nefarious development.

  • Issue Year: 4/2009
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 38-47
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Romanian