From Rights to Duties and Responsibilities: A Challenge for Contemporary Democracies
From Rights to Duties and Responsibilities: A Challenge for Contemporary Democracies

Summary/Abstract: In the paper, the author assumes that the concept of human and civil rights, as established in democratic societies today, represents a suitable starting point for reflecting on the crisis of political and economic systems in terms of various forms of current environmentalism. The paper aims to identify the relationship between rights and duties in current democratic societies, highlighting the need to reassess how societies set values in the context of the environmental crisis that humanity is facing. A balanced emphasis not only on rights but also on corresponding duties and global responsibilities for the next generations is a prerequisite for such a change. One of the numerous alternatives emerging today in the context of rethinking the establishment of social and political systems in democracies is the concept of degrowth which was developed at the beginning of the 21st century and is based on reducing economic growth. In terms of methodology, the paper employs a method of philosophical and conceptual analysis of key categories as well as further discussion of the subject matter.

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