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IRACHETA FERNANDEZ, Francisco Javier. Kant and the phenomenon of human rights as a prophetic history. Isonomía [online]. 2021, n.55, pp.27-60.  Epub 28-Fev-2022. ISSN 1405-0218.  https://doi.org/10.5347/isonomia.v0i55.435.

The article offers an alternative way to understand a Kantian approach to human rights beyond the metaphysical one, developed recently by Jürgen Habermas and Otfried Höffe. The article intends to demonstrate that the way these authors defend Kant´s eventual contribution to the human rights cause, sustained on his aprioristic and transcendental doctrine of morals, does not withstand scrutiny if the goal is to defend the human quality and universality of these rights. By appraising the concept of the “phenomenon of human rights” addressed foremost by the Argentine philosopher and jurist Eduardo Rabossi, the paper seeks to show instead that a non-transcendental stand taken up by Kant, which is both historical and anthropological, as it appears in the explanation of the relationship between revolution and moral progress in the second essay of his book The Conflict of the Faculties, fits better what these rights represent.

Palavras-chave : Kant; human rights; phenomenon of human rights; anthropology; prophetic history.