Philosophy of Human Rights

The course aims to provide students with a critical reflection on the nature (and the main legal-philosophical theories) of human rights and to foster the acquisition of an awareness of the philosophical dimension of many problems relating to their application

By the end of the course, the student will have learnt the fundamental elements of contemporary philosophical-legal discussion on human rights; he/she will have attained the ability to develop an appropriate philosophical-legal analysis of the issues; he/she will have become aware, also thanks to the classroom discussion, of the need to use rigorous language and adequate argumentation skills in the presentation of problems; he/she will have appropriated the need for a methodologically correct approach.