UNIVERZALNOST LJUDSKIH PRAVA U SVJETLU KANTOVE MORALNE FILOZOFIJE
THE UNIVERSALITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE LIGHT OF KANT’S MORAL PHILOSOPHY

Summary/Abstract: This essay is conceived to reaffirmed Kant’s moral philosophy, by showing that such a system of ethics has not become outmoded by postmodern ethical currents, but that its importance is more likely to lie in the fact that it can be properly allocated. The first postulate is demonstrated in this work through a correlation of Kant’s moral, and subsequently practical, philosophy with the philosophical aspects of contemporary human rights issues. The ultimate demand of human rights ideology for universal acceptance and affirmation was argued in a philosophico-ethical manner through Kant’s moral and practical philosophy. Furthermore, there emerges, through the affirmation of the human rights ethic as the duty to act in terms of global concern for humanity, the possibility of an approximation to the ideal of the cosmopolitan society and the affirmation of the particular human rights culture, which could then compensate for the limited scope of the developing legal and political mechanisms designed to implement human rights. Within this work, Kant’s moral philosophy has been used in support of the universality of human rights and to help isolate a separate and autonomous human rights ethic. Rationality thus proves to be the main factor that may bring about global cohesion around the acceptance of human rights. The basic elements of human rights ideology (freedom, dignity, tolerance, and equal, inalienable, inseparable rights conferred by the sole fact of being a member of humanity) have found their common place in the fact of human rationality and the notion of humanity derived from it, explicated in terms of Kant’s moral and practical philosophy.

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