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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA%20GRAECO-CATHOLICA%20VARADIENSIS - Issue no. 1-2 / 2015  
         
  Article:   JACQUES MARITAIN, PHILOSOPHER OF HUMAN DIGNITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS / JACQUES MARITAIN, PHILOSOPHE DE LA DIGNITE HUMAINE ET DES DROITS DE L’HOMME.

Authors:  CRISTIAN TISELIȚĂ. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Jacques Maritain, Philosopher of Human Dignity and Human Rights. Jacques Maritain could be called a truly human rights philosopher. The untouchable values of the human dignity and of the fundamental rights are in all his philosophical thinking. For the French philosopher the dignity is inherent to the human nature, a different point of view to the Kant’s thinking which defines the dignity not from the point of view of human nature, but from the point of view of the subject’s autonomy and his absolute freedom. The consequence of this perspective guides to the relativism of the human dignity in the name of freedom; and this relativism is due also to the persons’ vulnerability at the beginning and at the end of life. The dignity, inherent to the human nature, is the sine qua non condition for a rightful philosophy of human rights and of his divine vocation. This detail so important nowadays was put in the International Constitution of Human Rights (1948) which was written in the spirit of the Jacques Maritain human rights’ philosophy.

Keywords: human person, dignity, fundamental rights, human nature, relativism, respect, theocentric humanism, divine vocation 		 
         
     
         
         
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