Human Rights and Human Dignity

Abstract

The argumentative analysis on human rights and human dignity is conceived with the purpose of reflecting on the complexities that represent as a social phenomenon, either human rights or human dignity. It is noteworthy that part of these reflections, derived from work papers delivered in various curricular units of the specialty in human rights of the National Open University (UNA) and the Master's Degree in Human Rights of the Bolivarian University of Venezuela, where they stand out as participants; the authors. Human rights and human dignity are pillars in the individual - social life of the human being, through them a recognition of oneself as a person capable of assuming a socialization based on equality, respect, justice, life wellbeing is achieved , generating an axiological system where empathy contributes to the generation of human relationships in accordance with the universal values present in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). The complex of human rights, is gestated in two ways; the first in the legal order of the objective - subjective. The second, in the dimensionality and importance that the human being gives to the subject of human rights, from the subjective, moral; of each society, a way of respecting or violating human rights can be conceived. The transcendentalist vision of the Kantian moral philosophy, where the human being in the company of his fellowmen cooperate to build a society based on axiological principles of good living, contributes to human rights as a guiding instrument in shaping societies from the transcendental, where not only an individual grows in welfare, but the set of individuals that make up society. Thanks to cooperative work in conjugation with the fulfillment of human rights as the central axis of social coexistence.