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The Purpose of Philosophy and the Question of Human Rights

What is happening to philosophy in our so-called post-modern times? Has philosophy today still any sense? Instead of interpreting the world with the aim of its understanding, a great number of contemporary philosophers provide only the modalities of interpretation. And, when within the framework of such an approach a pretentious philosopher ventures to turn to “the real thing”, such attempts usually result in lifeless constructs, unconnected and detached from their subject and from the cognitive, social, spiritual, existential and other needs of the non- philosophical public. Because of this philosophical self-content and because of different philosophical reductions, the possibility of philosophical approach to the question of human rights becomes very limited. Normative ethical questioning jurisprudence which regulate the field of human right sees almost entirely the question of human rights as, on the one hand to the doctrine of international and civic law ; and on the other hand to the empirical investigations about the level of the application of legal norms. The effect of laws on the reality of justice and on human dignity remains in this way practically without possibility of any founded research. Only through re-introduction of the philosophically based criticism, maintained by logical and linguistic clarification of relevant notions and conclusions, into the sphere of human rights will the philosophy which wants to remain loyal to its duty and to come true to its purpose really realize own integrative function concerning the sense and condition of human rights.

philosophy; reduction; human rights; law; justice

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