From Life Preservation to Global Normative Orientation: The New Human Rights and the Semantic Field of Jean-Pol Martin

This working paper develops the worldwide normative claim of Jean-Pol Martin’s New Human Rights (NMR) and semantic field. It examines how an organismic understanding of human life, basic needs and collective problem-solving can inform standards for education, institutions, community development and human-AI cooperation. The argument makes the normative bridge explicit: when the preservation and flourishing of human life, equal consideration of persons and the protection of shared life-supporting conditions are accepted as aims, societal decisions should be assessed by their effects on those conditions. The six NMR domains are thinking, health, security, social inclusion, self-realization and participation, and meaning. The New Human Rights articulate rights and aims; the semantic field provides a connected vocabulary for understanding situations, evaluating alternatives and organizing cooperative action. What this article adds:Normative orientation is already present in the existing framework. This paper’s specific contribution is its focused justification of worldwide normative use. It distinguishes anthropological description, normative commitments and institutional implications, and illustrates their connection through the participatory redesign of a public square. Function within the Zenodo corpus:The article connects the reconstruction of Martin’s theory architecture with public justification and practical decision criteria. It links existing strands on Learning by Teaching, New Human Rights, semantic coherence, prioritization, governance and human-AI cooperation. It thus serves as a bridge from conceptual synthesis to accountable societal application. Worldwide orientation is understood as shared evaluative concerns combined with context-sensitive implementation. The paper proposes a framework for public discussion and application; it does not claim existing international endorsement or legal recognition of the NMR. This is a conceptual working paper without a new empirical dataset. Jean-Pol Martin supplied the conceptual framework and direction. ChatGPT assisted with argument development, English drafting and layout.