الخطاب المعاصر لحقوق الإنسان : رورتي و التثقيف العاطفي

Abstract EN

This article investigates the contemporary discourse of human rights, in order to locate and briefly describe Richard Rorty's contribution to the discussion in his well-known article entitled “Human Rights, Rationality, and Sentimentality”.

A recent line of thought in the human rights literature claims that we need not, even should not, attempt to ground human rights in substantive philosophical foundations.

In the same line, Richard Rorty has essentially argued that we cannot justify human rights; reason is a useless apparatus to promote human rights; and we should instead concentrate on sentimental education.

Sentimental education proposes to acquaint peoples with different ethnicities to see the similarities amongst them rather than differences.

Rorty believes that a properly functioning human rights culture results from security and sympathy.