MacIntyre against MacIntyre

Premisses for a reconciliation with the human rights

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https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-6746.2021.1.40175

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Human Rights, Common Good, Ethics, Communitarian Practice

Abstract

This paper, based on the diagnosis of Modernity undertaken by Alasdair MacIntyre, intends to evaluate the possibility of reconciling the universalizing discourse of human rights with the particularist ethics supported by the cited author from the point of view of an Aristotelian Ethics. The convergence between individual goods, embodied in rights, and the common good, an essential component of ethical practice and thought may represent a relevant theoretical contribution in the field of human rights studies. In this work, given the limitation of its nature, we attempted to analyze three intrinsic problems in the conception of rights, according to the perspective of MacIntyre: a) the idea that subjects of rights are autonomous and fully independent moral individuals; b) the separation of the individual good from the common good; c) the deflation of practical community reasoning, in relation to individual rationality. This work resulted in an analytical exposition of the points of contrast between the human rights perspective and ethics as understood by MacIntyre, to prepare ways of possible convergence between them.

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Author Biographies

Luana Adriano Araújo, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.

Mestre em Direito pela Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), em Fortaleza, CE, Brasil.

Renato José de Moraes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.

Doutor em Filosofia pelo pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), no Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.

Arthur Cezar Alves de Melo, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.

Mestre em Direito pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), no Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.

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2021-06-21

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Araújo, L. A., de Moraes, R. J., & de Melo, A. C. A. (2021). MacIntyre against MacIntyre: Premisses for a reconciliation with the human rights. Veritas (Porto Alegre), 66(1), e40175. https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-6746.2021.1.40175

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