This article looks to make sense of those cases where the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) changes its position on interpretation in light of the increasingly high standards being required by human rights, when the Court applies the doctrine of evolutive interpretation to the ECHR’s object and purpose, as a Convention for the protection of ‘human rights’ (e.g. Selmouni v France). This raises two questions: What do we mean when we speak about ‘human rights’? Can the demands of human rights really change over time? Looking to the insights from social ontology, we can think of human rights as a social institution, emerging with the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and evolving with changes in human rights practices. Understood this way, reliance on the increasingly high standard doctrine becomes defensible when the ECtHR judgments are consistent with the evolving practices on human rights and the moral values that underpin the UDHR.

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从人权要求越来越高的标准解读《欧洲人权公约》：来自社会本体论的见解

本文旨在解释欧洲人权法院 (ECtHR) 在将演化解释原则应用于欧洲人权法院的目标时，鉴于人权要求越来越高的标准而改变其解释立场的案例。和目的，作为保护“人权”的公约（例如Selmouni v France）。这就提出了两个问题：当我们谈论“人权”时，我们指的是什么？人权的要求真的会随着时间的推移而改变吗？从社会本体论的角度来看，我们可以将人权视为一种社会制度，它随着《世界人权宣言》的通过而出现，并随着人权实践的变化而演变。以此方式理解，当欧洲人权法院的判决与不断发展的人权实践和支撑《世界人权宣言》的道德价值观相一致时，对日益高标准原则的依赖就变得合理。