Project Details
Projekt
GRK 1402: Human Dignity and Human Rights - Genesis, Development and Application of Central Values of Modernity
Subject Area
Social Sciences
Term
from 2007 to 2011
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 20066823
The Research Training Group "Human Dignity and Human Rights" is concerned with the historical-social background of this value structure for modernity, with its different theological and philosophical forms of reasoning and with the present challenges and problems of "applying" human rights and human dignity. Through the cooperation of six disciplines (philosophy, theology, jurisprudence, sociology, history and intensive medical care) a deeper understanding of those problems is pursued by combining questions of genesis with the question of validity. The Research Training Group especially focuses upon the experience of injustice and particularly of violence in the emergence, the reasoning and the application of human rights.
An analytical and hermeneutic examination of the main arguments and strategies in the battle for human rights and human dignity is also part of the Research Training Group. The focus is on those argumentation strategies that have prevailed throughout history and have proven as key notions in political-legal legitimating.
This Research Training Group is distinguished by its attempt to combine historical value analysis, arguments of reasoning, and reflection upon application, as opposed the more common narratives of human rights and human dignity with their philosophical reasoning. Rather, both genesis and validity are examined in the emergence of a moral structure that supports human rights and human dignity and their range of application/usage. We investigate how new kinds of applications (e.g., the discussion about experiments on animals with a therapeutic purpose for humans) could possibly create new contexts for rights and dignity, and we strive, therefore, to offer a deeper understanding of human rights and human dignity.
An analytical and hermeneutic examination of the main arguments and strategies in the battle for human rights and human dignity is also part of the Research Training Group. The focus is on those argumentation strategies that have prevailed throughout history and have proven as key notions in political-legal legitimating.
This Research Training Group is distinguished by its attempt to combine historical value analysis, arguments of reasoning, and reflection upon application, as opposed the more common narratives of human rights and human dignity with their philosophical reasoning. Rather, both genesis and validity are examined in the emergence of a moral structure that supports human rights and human dignity and their range of application/usage. We investigate how new kinds of applications (e.g., the discussion about experiments on animals with a therapeutic purpose for humans) could possibly create new contexts for rights and dignity, and we strive, therefore, to offer a deeper understanding of human rights and human dignity.
DFG Programme
Research Training Groups
Applicant Institution
Universität Erfurt
Co-Applicant Institution
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Spokespersons
Professor Dr. Hans Joas, since 4/2007; Professor Dr. Nikolaus Knoepffler, since 4/2007
