Conceptualizing Human Rights Remarks on the ‘Genus’ and Distinguishing Features of Human Rights
The paper examines the conceptual issues of human rights using the framework of the genus proximum – differentia specifica definitional technique. My aim is not to come up with a definition for human rights, but rather to identify their genus that can, as a starting point, serve the purposes of con...
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The paper examines the conceptual issues of human rights using the framework of the genus proximum – differentia specifica definitional technique. My aim is not to come up with a definition for human rights, but rather to identify their genus that can, as a starting point, serve the purposes of constructing a more elaborate theory. As an unsurprising, but not at all obvious suggestion, it is argued that the closest conceptual category to human rights is the category of rights, understood in a wide but still Hohfeldian sense of the word. Subsequently, the paper examines five potential ‘distinguishing features’ that can, either separately or in combination with each other, set apart human rights from other rights.
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| spelling | doaj.art-e803278b74d546a8a02a6b3c859ecd912022-12-22T03:17:51ZengUniversidad de JaénAge of Human Rights Journal2340-95922022-06-011810.17561/tahrj.v18.6874Conceptualizing Human Rights Remarks on the ‘Genus’ and Distinguishing Features of Human RightsAntal Szerletics0University of Public Service The paper examines the conceptual issues of human rights using the framework of the genus proximum – differentia specifica definitional technique. My aim is not to come up with a definition for human rights, but rather to identify their genus that can, as a starting point, serve the purposes of constructing a more elaborate theory. As an unsurprising, but not at all obvious suggestion, it is argued that the closest conceptual category to human rights is the category of rights, understood in a wide but still Hohfeldian sense of the word. Subsequently, the paper examines five potential ‘distinguishing features’ that can, either separately or in combination with each other, set apart human rights from other rights. https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/TAHRJ/article/view/6874theory of rightsHohfeldjural relationsclaim-rightsmoral rightsconcept of human rights |
| spellingShingle | Antal Szerletics Conceptualizing Human Rights Remarks on the ‘Genus’ and Distinguishing Features of Human Rights Age of Human Rights Journal theory of rights Hohfeld jural relations claim-rights moral rights concept of human rights |
| title | Conceptualizing Human Rights Remarks on the ‘Genus’ and Distinguishing Features of Human Rights |
| title_full | Conceptualizing Human Rights Remarks on the ‘Genus’ and Distinguishing Features of Human Rights |
| title_fullStr | Conceptualizing Human Rights Remarks on the ‘Genus’ and Distinguishing Features of Human Rights |
| title_full_unstemmed | Conceptualizing Human Rights Remarks on the ‘Genus’ and Distinguishing Features of Human Rights |
| title_short | Conceptualizing Human Rights Remarks on the ‘Genus’ and Distinguishing Features of Human Rights |
| title_sort | conceptualizing human rights remarks on the genus and distinguishing features of human rights |
| topic | theory of rights Hohfeld jural relations claim-rights moral rights concept of human rights |
| url | https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/TAHRJ/article/view/6874 |
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