Are modern human rights compatible with a classic theory
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¿Es compatible la teoría clásica de la ley natural con los modernos Derechos Humanos?
Are modern human rights compatible with a classic theory of natural law?

Author(s): Guillermo Morales Sancho
Subject(s): Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Philosophy of Law
Published by: Wyższe Seminarium Duchowne w Łodzi
Keywords: Universal Declaration of Human Rights; natural law; relativism; rights-talk

Summary/Abstract: Are modern human rights, particularly as drafted in the UDHR, compatible with the natural law? This article briefly answers this question and tries to give an account of human rights that corrects our current abuses: individualistic rights-talk, the development of new desire-rights defended as human rights and relativism.

  • Issue Year: 28/2019
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 211-223
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Spanish