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Carlos Ruiz Miguel 
Los “derechos humanos” son un concepto que nace con la “modernidad”. Lo que parecen los estertores de esta “modernidad” nos permite ver una crisis de este concepto que se manifiesta en la relativización del concepto tanto en cuanto a lo que significan como “derechos” cuanto en lo que significan como “humanos”, no sólo cuestionando lo que es el “hombre” sino también extendiendo estos “derechos” a entes o entidades no humanas.
Summary: 1. ntroduction. 2. Human rights as rights: 2.1. Two modern conceptions of human rights: 2.1.1. Abstract-formal theory; 2.1.2. Historical- consensual theory; 2.2. Criticism of these conceptions: 2.2.1. Critique of Abstract-Formal Theory; 2.2.2. Critique of historical-consensual theory. 3. Human rights as humans: 3.1. Crisis of the concept of man; 3.2. The expansion of the rights-holding beyond the human: 3.2.1. The Rights of Nature; 3.2.2. Animal rights; 3.2.3. The rights of “transhuman” entities. 4. Conclusion.
“Human rights” are a concept that was born with “modernity.” What seems like the death rattles of this “modernity” allow us to see a crisis of this concept that manifests itself in the relativization of the concept both in terms of what “rights” and what “humans” mean, thus not only questioning what a “man” is but also extending these “rights” to non-human entities.
