El aporte a la dignificación del otro desde la categoría de historización de los derechos humanos de Ignacio Ellacuría

Abstract

This study examines the contribution to the recognition of human dignity through the category of the “historicization of Human Rights,” proposed by the philosopher of liberation Ignacio Ellacuría, S.J. Ellacuría argues that addressing this issue is both relevant and urgent in light of the conditions of inequality and injustice experienced by thousands of oppressed, excluded, and impoverished people throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. To interpret this philosophical thesis, the study adopts a socio-critical hermeneutic approach in order to elucidate the principal categories developed in Ellacuría’s work, namely: historical reality, ideological distortion, human dignity, his analysis of Human Rights discourse, and historicization as an autonomous category. For the former rector of the Central American University (UCA), these concepts constitute the structural foundation for recognizing and affirming the dignity of the other, a fundamental element in the process of liberating the poor, the excluded, and the oppressed.