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Alternative title:

Human rights and the “death of God”

Subject and Keywords:

human rights   death of God

Description:

Tyt. tomu: Prawa podstawowe Unii Europejskiej w badaniach naukowych Centrum Doskonałości Jeana Monneta Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego

Abstract:

The “death of God” — a Nietzschean metaphor — is still considered as an excellent diagnosis of the condition of modern societies deprived of metaphysical ground. The author uses this metaphor to illustrate the genealogy and the present of conservative criticism of human rights. This criticism is based on the allegation that the ideology of human rights is responsible for the breakdown of the “social metaphysics” of the West. The author attempts to show the dangerous potential of conservative criticism of human rights. In the following part of his paper the author refers to the phenomenon of “the end of grand narratives” treated as another dimension of the “death of God” and formulates the question of possible solutions to the problem of justification of human rights in postmodern conditions.

Place of publishing:

Wrocław

Publisher:

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego

Date issued:

2017

Date copyrighted:

2017

Resource Type:

text

Identifier:

ISSN 0137-1134

DOI:

10.19195/0137-1134.107.19

Language:

pol   eng

Relation:

Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis, ISSN 0239-6661, No 3744. Przegląd Prawa i Administracji, ISSN 0137-1134, 2016 (2017), 107, s. 359-374

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Czasopisma Naukowe w Sieci

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