When Rights Forget the Human Face. Why the Family — Not the State — Is the Measure of Civilization

Описание: Rev. Fr. Francesco Giordano, STD
Human Life International, Rome and Europe Director
Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas "Angelicum", Faculty of Theology
Catholic University of America Rome Program, Faculty of Theology

📌 When Rights Forget the Human Face

Why the Family — Not the State — Is the Measure of Civilization

Modern society speaks endlessly about *human rights**—yet seems increasingly unable to recognize the **human person* for whom those rights exist.

Father Giordano examines the hidden *anthropological crisis* at the heart of contemporary rights discourse. Beginning with a reflection on modern human rights frameworks (including insights drawn from public commentary by Human Rights Watch), we ask a deeper question:
👉 What vision of the human person underlies our moral and political language?

Drawing from **classical Christian anthropology**, **Trinitarian theology**, **St. Thomas Aquinas**, **Boethius**, and **Christopher Dawson**, this talk explores why rights divorced from a doctrine of the person become hollow—and even destructive.

🔍 Topics explored in this video:

Why *rights without metaphysics* collapse into abstraction
The classical definition of the *human person* (Boethius)
Personhood rooted in *relation, not isolation*
The difference between *true individuality* and modern loneliness
Why the *family* is the first school of personhood
How the erosion of parenthood reshapes society
The Christian vision of *hierarchy, order, and love*
Christopher Dawson on civilization, culture, and decay
Equality vs. order: why modern ideology misunderstands dignity
The *Holy Family* as the true measure of social life

This is not a rejection of human rights—but a call to **ground them again in reality**: in being, nature, relationship, and order.
A society that forgets the family will eventually forget the person.
And a culture that forgets the person will speak eloquently of rights—while quietly dissolving the conditions that make us human.

🎥 If you’re interested in **Christian philosophy**, **political theology**, **cultural criticism**, or the future of civilization, this talk is for you.

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human rights discourse, Christian anthropology, family and society, political theology, Christopher Dawson, Boethius personhood, St Thomas Aquinas, Trinitarian theology, modern individualism, loneliness crisis, family vs state, rights and dignity, Christian civilization, metaphysics of the person

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