Connecting (and uniting) humanity: The good use of human rights, according to Alain Supiot

Abstract

The fundamentally human experience of language and its heteronomy legitimizes thinking humans also as constitutively “legal” because law has in the prohibition and the imposition of duties their fundamental axes in involvement with others. The bonds between humans on these heteronomous basis in the law, the contract and the statute law, no gimmicks and serve from the close relations to dialogue and global hits in human rights. The “noise” detected by Supiot are impeding the language of human rights as a great foundation for a dialogical humanity immersed in an unstoppable process of globalization. They are messianism, communitarianism and scientism, who radicalize biases of political positions, Western cultural and scientific to the detriment of the “rest” of the world. In addition, the individual subject model and legal rights that he ascribes, man as Imago Dei (God’s image) reinforces a “secular” belief system which includes the Law and the Western Science as a new religion, but without the inherent dogmatic opening of Religion (re-ligare). These “noises” have shaped the law and negatively affected the dialogical and multicultural character of human rights, historically generating a “misuse” of the same. In this “misuse” of human rights, Supiot opposes the “good use” which he defines as the open interpretation not only restricted to the laws, but that revolve subjects, words and institutions “hard” that without this dialogical opening and interpretive, not serve to the North-South dialogue or between such disparate peoples and cultures. This article elected as its basis that traditional legal relationship (subject, object and bond), once that it is consistent with the structure and discursive organization of Supiot throughout the book and especially in chapter 6.

Keywords: human rights, Alain Supiot, language, law, Homo juridicus.