OLD TESTAMENT ETHICS WITH RESPECT TO HUMAN VALUES FOR A DECONSTRUCTION OF A SECULARIST UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN RIGHTS. AN ORTHODOX POINT OF VIEW
OLD TESTAMENT ETHICS WITH RESPECT TO HUMAN VALUES FOR A DECONSTRUCTION OF A SECULARIST UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN RIGHTS. AN ORTHODOX POINT OF VIEW

Summary/Abstract: This research addresses the divine right of the concept of Human Rights, a topic widely debated in contemporary society. God, through the Law of Moses, offers to the man created according to His image a series of rights that come to valorise the dignity and freedom of the human being. Human Rights, through their status of revealed laws, can only be applicable in practice if they are integrated into their religious circuit of divine inspiration. The secularisation and relativisation of rights in today's society are leading to the impossibility of their application on a global scale - the rights of dominant influence groups on the capital market most often damage the dignity of the weaker. Now more than ever, it is necessary to overcome this vicious way of applying the right of the most powerful, by rediscovering our sources and returning to the roots; this is how, guided by God, the Jewish society succeeded in implementing human rights at an universal level, integrating them in terms of dignity, in the case of foreigners and slaves as well. The Right to promote Holiness - as the only guarantee of concrete applicability of rights, considering that the moral man, will never constrain his neighbour's freedom and dignity - is, in our opinion, the only way to establish a genuine norm. Without this visionary resurrection, we will witness the disappearance of Human Rights the way we know them nowadays.

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