Human Rights and Human Nature

Abstract

There seems to be two different versions of human rights in Western tradition: say Rationalistic and Christian; the former adopted in revolutionary France, the latter highly developed in Renaissance Spain. Current relativistic criticisms attempt to deny the universality of human rights alleging that this theory has been created in Western countries or it has no strong justification, and therefore cannot have universal approach; but this objection can be dismissed with an alternative justification of human rights.

Keywords

• Derechos humanos
• naturaleza humana
• justificación
• racionalismo
• cristianismo
• críticas
• universalidad.