The Idea of Human Rights – Wobbling Monument of European Culture

Authors

  • Aleksander Bobko Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawła II w Krakowie

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15633/lie.4169

Keywords:

idea praw człowieka, moralne obowiązki, prawa mniejszości seksualnych

Abstract

The article addresses the issue of the usage of the idea of human rights in contemporary disputes on the rights of sexual minorities. In the first part, the philosophical foundations on which the idea of human rights is based are recalled. The connection between rights of human being and his moral duties is underlined. The second part analyzes the content and message contained in the Resolution of the European Parliament on declaring the EU a zone of freedom for LGBTIQ persons of 11.03.2021. In the author’s opinion, this document may be an example of instrumental use of the idea of human rights, which threatens to undermine the position of this peculiar “monument,” which plays an extremely important role in European and world culture and political practice.

Author Biography

  • Aleksander Bobko, Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawła II w Krakowie

    Aleksander Bobko (1960) – profesor filozofii, magister informatyki, absolwent AGH, UJ i PAT w Krakowie. W latach 1985–1997 asystent ks. Józefa Tischnera. Odbywał staże naukowe w Niemczech, Austrii, Wielkiej Brytanii, USA. Specjalizuje się w klasycznej filozofii niemieckiej i współczesnej problematyce moralnej. Publikacje książkowe: Kant i Schopenhauer (Rzeszów 1996), Non Multa. Schopenhauers Philosophie des Leidens (Würzburg 2001), Wartość i nicość (Rzeszów 2005), Myślenie wobec zła (Kraków 2007); tłumaczenie I. Kant Religia w obrębie samego rozumu (wyd. 1 – Kraków 1993). W latach 2012–2015 był rektorem Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego. Od grudnia 2015 do marca 2018 pełnił funkcję sekretarza stanu w MNiSW. Senator RP w latach 2015–2019.

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Published

2021-12-16

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Vol. 58 No. 2 (2021)

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