Bobbio's conception of human rights

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the issue of human rights in the thinking of the Italian author Norberto Bobbio. The historical and contemporary debate on human rights has always been a scene of considerable controversy, gaining considerable space in the public debate with the advent of the Second World War, culminating in the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). This declaration intended to meet a minimum set of rights so that every human being deserves, from birth, as a member of the human species. For the recognition of these rights universally, there is a need for this set of rights to correspond to the desires of all people, with their different cultures. In order to establish consensus, therefore, it is necessary to find homeomorphic concepts of human rights in different cultures. A second problem involving human rights is the issue of their protection, which is difficult to apply in certain cultures. In this second problem, Bobbio’s thought seems to have space, which identifies the effectiveness of human rights as the biggest challenge in this issue, especially regarding the rights of freedom and equality. The present study is based on exploratory research, with bibliographic analysis based on data collection in updated scientific material on the topic.