Universality, ethical community, and human rights in Lima Vaz
| Autor | Laura Souza Lima e Brito |
| Ocupação do Autor | PhD Candidate at the Law School of the University of São Paulo |
| Páginas | 2723-2731 |
Working Group: Law and Ethics • 2723
Universality, ethical community,
and human rights in Lima Vaz
Laura Souza Lima e Brito1
Abstract: This paper addresses the opposition between nomothetic universality
andhypotheticuniversalityforHenriqueCláudiodeLimaVazasacoremaer
for the feasibility and establishment of a universal ethical community and, con-
sequentlyfordeningandensuringuniversalhumanrights
Keywords: Universality. Ethical community. Human rights. Henrique Cláudio
de Lima Vaz.
1. Initial remarks
This paper has been presented to the Law and Ethics working
group at the XXVI World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Phi-
losophy, which took place at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. It
hasthepurposeofextractingfromthebodyofworkofHenriqueCláu-
dio de Lima Vaz, an important Brazilian philosopher and formulator
of a concrete ethical system, what the understanding of the relation be-
tween ethics and law may contribute to comprehend the possibility of a
universal ethical community today.
This work approaches the relation between ethical community
and human rights according to Lima Vaz’s conceptions. In other terms,
the question to which we seek an answer is: which are to Lima Vaz the
present obstacles for the consolidation of a universal ethical community
and for the realization of human rights as universal rights?
The search for an answer to this question is theoretical and will
takeplaceinHenriqueCláudiodeLimaVazsworkaswellasinworks
of his commentators, which have already produced in Brazil a vast rep-
ertoire on ethics according to Vaz’s view
1
PhD Candidate at the Law School of the University of São Paulo. E-mails: lauraslbrito@
gmail.com/laurabrito@usp.br
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