Why should all people have certain rights by virtue of being human? One justification is to appeal to religious authority. However, in increasingly secular societies, this approach has its limitations. An alternative answer is that human rights are justified by human dignity. This article argues that human rights and human dignity are better separated for three reasons. First, the paradox of justification: the concept of human dignity does not solve the problem of justifying human rights, but rather exacerbates it in secular societies. Second, the Kantian blind spot: if human rights were based on a Kantian conception of dignity rather than on theistic grounds, these rights would lose their universal validity. Third, the threat of associationism: human dignity is currently more controversial than the concept of human rights, especially given the unresolved tensions between aspirational dignity and inviolable dignity.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dlaczego wszyscy ludzie mieliby mie\u0107 okre\u015blone prawa z racji bycia cz\u0142owiekiem? Jednym z usprawiedliwie\u0144 jest odwo\u0142anie si\u0119 do w\u0142adzy religijnej. Jednak w spo\u0142ecze\u0144stwach coraz bardziej \u015bwieckich takie podej\u015bcie ma swoje ograniczenia. Alternatywn\u0105 odpowiedzi\u0105 jest to, \u017ce prawa cz\u0142owieka s\u0105 uzasadnione ludzk\u0105 godno\u015bci\u0105. Artyku\u0142 ten dowodzi, \u017ce prawa cz\u0142owieka i godno\u015b\u0107 cz\u0142owieka s\u0105 lepiej rozdzielone z […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publikacje-zagraniczne"],"yoast_head":"\n