An Approach to Rights from John Finnis’ Notion of Basic Human Goods
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https://doi.org/10.5294/dika.2023.32.1.15Keywords:
Human rights, basic human goods, constitutive elements of rights, common good, authorityAbstract
Rights are a disputed phenomenon whose comprehension is obscured in legal and political speeches. Thus, it is common to appeal to rights without realizing their constitutive elements, the aims they pursue, and their relationship with the common good. Such issues will be approached by explaining the notion of rights deducted from John Finnis’ theory of basic human goods. For this, we will highlight the importance of conceiving an objective, realistic, and solid notion of rights that does not depend exclusively on the will of legislators or judges. We will also discuss the abstraction problem affecting rights, their elements, the relationship between rights, basic human goods, and the common good, and, finally, how this imbrication limits the will of legal and political agents. This analysis concludes that fundamental human goods and the common good are indispensable requirements for a respectful notion of rights.
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