Author: JARITZA LAINES
Author Origin: ECUADOR
SUMMARY
Over the past few decades, the right to life has taken center stage in the general economics of human rights, while economic and social rights have taken a backseat. This evolution has occurred in an almost invisible way, while the evidence of the value of human life has prevailed greatly and in an apparently consensual way in the international public space. By means of a case study on AIDS in South Africa and, in particular, of what can be called a social drama, I try to show how two ethical communities, unequally positioned homogeneously with respect to both types of rights, have confronted each other., not recognized as stories. Expanding the analysis to other cases, I propose the concept of biolegitimacy, legitimacy of the "simple fact of living", according to Walter Benjamin's formula, not studying its metaphysical foundation as he does, but dwelling on the anthropological significance of a progressive substitution of social justice for humanitarian reasons.
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