Umano, viventi, diritto (e diritti)

Some contemporary issues (patterns of social development, crisis of the democracies, climate change) involve a rediscussion of the modern equation “human subject-subjective right”, which is based on the Cartesian scission “subject” (i.e. rational being)-“nature” (i.e. mechanistic world). The relevance tributed to non-human dimensions entails to rethink some philosophical- legal concepts: the pair subject-object, the role of law, the idea of responsibility and the relation human beings-nature.