The Man and the State. From the Status subiectionis to the Citizenship. The Parabola of the Human Rights Achievement

Society is defined as modern and contemporary not for merely temporal reasons alone, but above all because it has a particular corpus that actually lists a series of rights/values that must unequivocally be universal, or rather, they must inevitably concern everyone, protect everyone and apply to everyone. These rights concern the right to/value of life, liberty, dignity, equality, health and welfare, private property, education and the protection of children. It is a group of universal and inalienable rights (and consequent prohibitions) that rise above the individual cultural traditions of any ethnic group or population. Out of such rights, in an almost natural and consequential way, emerge a series of prohibitions. Many of these rights, that were rediscovered and brought back into fashion in the XVIII century in the wake of American and French revolutionary forces, already existed in the great monotheistic religions, in what Muslims call ahl al-Kitab, the people of the Book and in the revealed Books (the Torah, Gospels, Quran, Avesta and Rigveda).