PERSONALIZAM: FILOZOFSKI IZVOR EUROPSKOG UJEDINJENJA I IZGRADNJE SUSTAVA ZAŠTITE LJUDSKIH PRAVA/PERSONALISM: PHILOSOPHICAL SOURCE OF EUROPEAN UNIFICATION AND CREATING SYSTEM FOR HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION

Abstract

After World War II, personalist thinkers, particularly Jacques Maritain, Denis de Rougemont, and Alexandre Marc, were key theorists and designers of the Western European order. Their contribution is examined through the advocacy of European integration in federal form and the influence on the leading political factors of the time, especially from the Christian Democrat political option. The author also evalautes the impact of personalists on European human rights instruments, primarily on the European Convention on Human Rights and on the establishment of the European Court of Human Rights. As for closure, the author thematizes the important circumstance that philosophical personalistic views of the world and man, concepts of universalism, person and human dignity, in their nature abstract, found their reflection in concrete form, in the world of politics and law.