Human Rights and Concept of Person:Some Ethical Remarks
Human Rights and Concept of Person:Some Ethical Remarks

Summary/Abstract: The paper critically discusses the proposal of identifying the subject of human rightsby means of the concept of moral person, reflecting on the inherent connection betweenthe concept of person and that of human rights in their moral dimension, that is, in thelight of an ethics of human rights, an ethics in which human rights representfundamental moral values. The thesis defended is that the concept of moral personlends itself more than any other to the role of subject of human rights, if conceived asa relational, communicative and representative social value, that is as “the conceptof an individual human being whose features enable him to join some segments of hislife with others”.

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