THE NATURE AS POLITICALLY DECISIVE FACT: POLEMICS ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Authors

  • Sertório de Amorim e Silva Neto Universidade de São Paulo - USP e Universidade Federal de Uberlândia - UFU

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/phi.v13i1.4869

Keywords:

Liberal State, totalitarism, moral

Abstract

The paper investigates the context of origin and some controversy about human rights. Its intent is to present the paradox of these rights, the fact that they nevertheless serve to modern political emancipation and the defence of equality and freedom, involving also the bourgeois selfishness and totalitarian political regimes of the century XX assuming both the metaphysical and sublime form as of thing, nature crude and corruptible, gross and corruptible nature. What we want to discuss in this article are the reflections of the political assimilation of an abstract concept such human nature.

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Author Biography

Sertório de Amorim e Silva Neto, Universidade de São Paulo - USP e Universidade Federal de Uberlândia - UFU

possui graduação em Filosofia pela Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (1999) e mestrado em Filosofia pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (2003). Atualmente é doutorando em filosofia pela Universidade de São Paulo e professor do Departamento de Filosofia da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU). É membro do GT ANPOF- Filosofia da História e Modernidade e do Grupo de Estudo da Filosofia de Giambattista Vico. Tem experiência na área de Filosofia, com ênfase em Filosofia da Educação, Teoria do Conhecimento e Filosofia Social e Política, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: Giambattista Vico, Max Horkheimer, história da filosofia contemporânea e história da filosofia moderna.

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Published

2009-11-15

How to Cite

DE AMORIM E SILVA NETO, Sertório. THE NATURE AS POLITICALLY DECISIVE FACT: POLEMICS ON HUMAN RIGHTS. Philósophos a journal of philosophy, Goiânia, v. 13, n. 1, p. 149–174, 2009. DOI: 10.5216/phi.v13i1.4869. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/philosophos/article/view/4869. Acesso em: 5 dec. 2025.

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 1 (2008): Filosofical Topics

Section

Artigos Originais

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