La justificación racional de los derechos humanos en los redactores de la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos

Pedro Pallares Yabur

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Published: Jan 1, 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15581/011.2708

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Pallares Yabur, P. (2013). The argument about the rational justification of human rights argument from the drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Persona Y Derecho, (68), 139-158. https://doi.org/10.15581/011.2708

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Pedro Pallares Yabur e-mail

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Universidad Panamericana (México).

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Is often thought that the lack of agreement about the ‘why’ of human rights, led the drafters of the Universal Declaration in 1948, to avoid any attempt to establish any kind of metaphysical claims about human rights. This paper shows how the drafters of the Declaration built a complete but unfinished argument about the foundation or about the rational justification of human rights. They have articulate a description of a real ‘being’, which is possible ‘to know’, that justify a ‘duty’. The practical agreement reached by the drafters is only possible, if they state minimum metaphysical truths, admit a practical knowledge, and sustain deontic commitments.

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Human Rights, Rational justification, Metaphysic, Ethic, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Inherent, Dignity, Reason, Conscience, Duties, Charles Malik, Peng Chun Chang, René Cassin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jacques Maritain

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