Los derechos humanos y la dialéctica entre autonomía y vulnerabilidad. Un análisis de la película Crash

Resumen

Human rights and the dialectics between autonomy and vulnerability. An analysys on the film Crash.

We address here the issue of human rights as a symbolic framework that holds society together and in certain situations could be violated. From our perspective, human rights are not only a normative background, but an expression in which moral conventions and principles of an ethics of care come together to protect the symbolic meaning of our species. The aggravation of exclusive migratory politics and the difficulties of living together in multicultural settings are elements that, from the current reality and also from the movies, as in the film Crash, confront us with the dialectics between vulnerability and autonomy, as well as between universalism and relativism. These tensions demand a third more comprehensive element, which we find in the idea of human rights.

Key Words. Race, racism, discrimination, ethics, otherness, human rights, vulnerability, autonomy, universalism, relativism.