The Christian-Catholic Religious Perspective: Human Rights, Cultural Pluralism and Bioethics

Abstract

Where human rights and fundamental rights are concerned, those rights are equal for each human being regardless of his condition, by reason of his humanity and human nature. And for the very reason that they are fundamental they are inalienable and cannot be disposed of: anyone can claim them towards other individuals and assert them in the face of political power. This is the minimum meaning of the doctrine of human rights. The elaboration of the list of the rights that all humans have, has a long history and a slow evolution.