Domande intorno alla crisi dell’età dei diritti: un po’ di realismo sui diritti umani

Abstract

Norberto Bobbio coined the notion of “age of rights”. Taking his conception seriously we cannot argue appropriately that there is a crisis of the age of rights. If we adopt the point of view proposed by Bobbio, which is that of the people involved, we can see that in several places of the world vulnerable persons use the language of rights to sustain with a moral legitimacy their claims for better living conditions. As rights haven’t lost their function of emancipation and inclusion of people the “crisis of the age of rights” doesn’t exist.