5.2.3.2. Human rights Crisis
Human rights fall into a crisis which would be linked to a
historic withdrawal of the Nation-State in Europe. Human rights are based on a
premise: the absolute concept of the dignity of the human person.
Unfortunately, because of insufficient consideration of "human sciences", and
specifically Ethnology / Anthropology - we are facing disorder and even more
serious, we are faced with a real impasse: the vast majority of men believe
that what is most important in the world, is not man, or "God" or "nature", but
money and wealth making. What appears to be universalized today is a culture
that does not respect the individual person, the Absolute and nature. We think
that universality should be one of responsible freedom, a freedom which
considers any individual person on the basis of his dignity as a human person.
Universality must not aim at destroying cultural and individual identity but at
placing values that are positive in any culture, any civilization, and any
people above particularities.
One thing we are certain about is that what is good is good
and what is evil is evil, there are some values that should transcend time and
space and all cultures because they are intrinsically good. Human value is
invaluable and man must be considered as a value above all other values no
matter the culture, the space or the time. As such, human rights, in so far as
they are based on the dignity of the human person, should be respected
everywhere at every moment.
This is the foundation of universal human rights. It is from
this foundation that was born the respect for difference, the unconditionality
of the other person, and this is the only true foundation of communal life for
humanity as a whole. Man is then defined not only as a zon politikon,
a political animal, as gifted with language, following Aristotle, as capable of
salvation in the monotheistic religious tradition, but also as a living being
able to establish and preserve a diversity of values and to communicate them.
It is the unconditional nature of values which is the criterion of assessment
and validation to the level of "human" values.
The narrow dependence of the definition of the "human nature"
vis-a-vis the current state of science, especially the science of living is
always in our mind when discussions arise about attributing the statute of
human being to the embryo, not to talk about debates about human identity when
human organ transplants and cloning techniques leave the field of science
fiction.
In this context human rights are already in a phase of
auto-limitation since man himself, in denying to consider the other person as a
value, denies acknowledging that he himself is a value, that he has some
dignity as a human person. Because human rights are the foundations of the
dignity of the human person, it is the occasion here for us to reaffirm the
value of the human person in order to raise the awareness of the international
community on the need to respect human rights which value the dignity of each
individual human being.
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