Liberal-Pragmatist Rationale of the Human Rights Culture

Authors

  • Alessandro Caviglia Marconi Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón

Keywords:

Human Rights, liberalism, religious war, Jewish Holocaust, pragmatic rationale, social rights, Richard Rorty, John Rawls, Thomas Pogge

Abstract

The author presents the way in which liberal political culture has emerged from radical evil that led to religious wars during
the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries and has become the framework on which the Culture of Human Rights was
installed, and then he presents the liberal - pragmatist rationale of that culture. This rationale is based on Richard Rorty's
proposal, which emphasizes the ethical – political aspect of the Human Rights Culture, supplementing it with the legal
contributions of John Rawls. Finally, the author notes a pending task, to achieve its effect, namely the reorganization of the
global economic system. This task is inspired by Thomas Pogge's proposal.

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Author Biography

Alessandro Caviglia Marconi, Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón

Magíster en filosofía por la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Profesor del departamento de Filosofía y Teología de la Universidad
Femenina del Sagrado Corazón, y de otras universidades. Ha escrito numerosos artículos y ha participado como ponente en conferencias y
eventos nacionales e internacionales.

Published

2012-12-01

How to Cite

Caviglia Marconi, A. (2012). Liberal-Pragmatist Rationale of the Human Rights Culture. Consensus, 17(1), 87–104. Retrieved from https://revistas.unife.edu.pe/index.php/consensus/article/view/938

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