Human rights and the context problem

The article aims to analyze human rights in a contextual and complex way. We will question the hegemonic, western, and contemporary conception of human rights, mobilizing the critical theory of the reinvention of human rights, developed by Joaquín Herrera Flores. From the philosophical critique of human rights, it is pointed out that the intended category of human dignity should not be universal but analyzed contextually and materially. In this sense, human rights should not have prior conceptual delimitation but should include people's concrete yearnings for material and immaterial goods that make up a dignified life. Finally, the article understands that people not only need rights - the right to have rights - but the possibility of a dignified life in which the satisfaction of material and immaterial goods can occur, as well as fighting for the satisfaction of their desires and needs.