Human dignity according to the debate Burke vs Paine found in the works Reflections on the revolution in France and Rights of man

Abstract

The present investigation had his origin in the search of the roots of the current concept of human dignity. Hence the reader could see in this writing the result of the analysis on the above mentioned notion in one of the most important debates of the XVIIIth century, to knowing, which they supported, on the one hand, liberal and historicist Edmund Burke and, for other, liberal and individualistic Thomas Paine, who took as a base the circumstances that surrounded the French Revolution of 1789. In the course of the text there will be identified and confronted both proposals, specifically with regard to the dignity, so much that of the Briton, in the book Reflect on the Revolution in France of 1790, which is established in the defense of the tradition, the same one that bears a moderate and limited government where the rights are respected that the use and the custom they give man in society; as that of the American, found in Rights of the man of 1791, for whom the source of the rights and the freedoms is the proper nature of the man out of the society, reason for which, in this one only there is an exchange of the natural rights that in nothing can affect the use and the enjoyment of the same ones.