The Idea of Human Rights – Wobbling Monument of European Culture
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https://doi.org/10.15633/lie.4169Keywords:
idea praw człowieka, moralne obowiązki, prawa mniejszości seksualnychAbstract
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.
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