Human rightism: rousseauovsko ili antirousseauovsko nasljeđe?
Human rightism: Rousseauian or Anti-Rousseauian Heritage?

Summary/Abstract: The author tends to show that contemporary discussions on human rights and fights for their realization are significantly different from Rousseau’s intentions, although he is considered to be one of the main founders of modern concept of the fight for human rights. The first argument in favour of that thesis is seen in fact that contemporary world comprehends human rights primarily in forms of “political correctness” and transformation of rights of the man into the rights of specific groups of people. In such a way, the original meaning of Rousseau’s claim that “man is born free and everywhere he is in chains” is blurred (it is no longer man, but female, child, veteran, person with special needs, member of LGBT community etc.). Second – and definitely more problematic argument – is possibility to interpret Rousseauian “return to nature” as directly opposite to contemporary tendencies toward expanding the volume of human rights, since only the civilization progress makes even possible something like “the rights of the disenfranchised”.

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