Round Table: Rethinking Civic and Political Responsibility
The first human right, according to Joseph Wresinski, is “the right to be human.” This approach, which is essential if we are to propose the perspective of a whole humanity, is an alternative to sub-humanity, where those in poverty are condemned to a simple daily struggle for survival without really have the chance to hold themselves up in a dignified life.
Patrick Viveret confronts the economic and political systems which prolong this state of sub-humanity through a global economy of ill-being, of mistreatment, with the thinking of Wresinski. Viveret shows that a whole humanity is the opportunity for each human being to consider others not as threatening rivals but as traveling companions as in the “dialogues of humanity.”
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