ARE HUMAN RIGHTS JURIDICAL VALUES?

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to facilitate a wide, unfinished, and flexible concept of Human Rights. Some philosophical questions should be resolved: 1. The concept of values, 2. The Objectivity of values; 3. The relations between values and needs; 4. A theory of goods that integrates social and institutional concepts. Human Rights are not legal values. They are legal norms endowed with a large content of value.