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- Title
Los Derechos Humanos como campo de luchas por la diversidad humana: Un análisis desde la sociología crítica de Boaventura de Sousa Santos.
- Authors
Bonet, Antoni Jesús Aguiló
- Abstract
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights establishes that all human beings are equal in dignity and rights. However, there are many and powerful reasons to question the supposed universality attributed to human rights. The principal objective of this article is to carry out a criticism of the Universalist conception of human rights under the light of the contributions of the sociology of Boaventura de Sousa Santos. This author proposes, based on intercultural dialogues about the different concepts of human dignity, a cosmopolitan and emancipatory reconstruction of human rights that is capable of avoiding its current Eurocentric slants and responding to the demands of our culturally pluralist and democratic societies.
- Subjects
HUMAN rights; SANTOS, Boaventura de Sousa, 1940-; CULTURAL pluralism; CRITICAL theory; PHILOSOPHY of sociology; CROSS-cultural communication; CULTURAL relations
- Publication
Universitas Humanística, 2009, Issue 68, p179
- ISSN
0120-4807
- Publication type
Article