CONTRIBUTIONS OF BERNARD LONERGAN'S THINKING TO THE FOUNDATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

In this article Louis Roy tries a fundamentation of human rights from the perspective of B. Lonergan. The universality of these is laid on the human nature, as dynamical, operating and historical. The human intentionality looks for the objectivity, unfolding its power in four levels: experience, understanding, judgment and action. From this dynamism there come out four rules: be kind, be intelligent, be reasonable and be responsible. The discovery of the value of these considerations bases and safeguards the human rights. Its ignorance generates the distortion of the human being. In order to correct the deviations, intellectual, moral and religious conversions are due to be given, which suppose faith, since it allows to recognize values more clearly.