Abstract
Human rights are not only pivotal in depicting the relationship between individuals and communities but also a focal point of political philosophical concerns oriented towards reality.The inseparability of human rights from individual self-identity reveals a contradiction between practicality and historicity in understanding individuals,as highlighted in the debate between liberalism and com-munitarianism.In order to reconcile this contradiction,Habermas,drawing from German classical philosophy,examines practicality and historicityseparately:while Fichte intertwines objectivity in self-iden-tity,revealing the practicality of individuals but neglecting their real elements,Hegel interprets self-identity under the concept of unity,examining individuals from a historical dimension but letting rational rules dominate reality.Ultimately,Habermas reconstructs the process of modern individual self-identity from the theory of communicative action by critiquing the shackles of subjective philosophy.He not only reconciles the divergence between practicality and historicity in self-identity,but also elucidates the inter subjective core inherent in human rights.