Ontological Foundation of Human Rights

Abstract

Ontological Foundation of Human Rights. – The concept of human rights plays in the modern time a role of religion shared by almost all the people in the democratic countries yet its foundation remains obscure. Attempts to anchor rights in various conceptions of society generally failed. There is however one proposal rendered particularly in the story about the king Arthur who was donated the magical sward with the tenet written on it: resist strong ones and protect weak ones. In fact nobody who boosts fragility can morally fail. This tenet is well procedural while its application depends on distribution of power among people. There is recommendable for ethics to analyze various kinds of power and to qualify relations between at least the two most important ones which are the power of swards and the power of keys.