Guerra y derechos humanos

30 minutes of philosophy of law: Old and new problems

Este trabajo recoge la intervención que cerró el seminario «Derecho, ética y política. Un debate en torno a la obra de Ernesto Garzón Valdés» (Alicante, 15 y 16 de junio de 2007). En ella se recogen algunas reflexiones del autor sobre los problemas cruciales de los que debería ocuparse la filosofía del Derecho contemporánea: 1) Estado de Derecho y terrorismo; 2) el impacto de las investigaciones neurológicas en el concepto de responsabilidad; 3) la erosión de las estructuras institucionales a nivel internacional; 4) la relación entre etica, política y Derecho desde el punto de vista de una filosofía analítica del Derecho; y 5) América Latina como contexto de investigación jurídico-filosófic…

On Justifying Legal Paternalism

. Paternalism, understood as coercive intervention with the behavior of a person in order to prevent her from causing harm to herself, is a highly controversial issue, because it implies a departure from the widely recognized principle of harm to others. Some conceptual differences between legal paternalism and other forms of state coercion that also depart from the principle of harm to others will be indicated. This is followed by an analysis of the arguments that are usually brought forth against legal paternalism. And finally, the possibility of determining ethically justifiable types of legal paternalism is explored.

What Could Mean “To Think in Spanish”?

The expression “to think in Spanish” could be understand in two different senses: as an exhortation or as a description of an state of affairs. In the first sense it has a normative character. It can means something like “we must think in Spanish!”. In the second case, it would be a more or less vague formulation about the existence of a relevant intelectual tradition in the spanish language. The first interpretation is misleading and can have excluding or trivial consequences. The second one is partially true. I propose a third interpretation: “to think in Spanish” could be understood as an invitation not to forget our Spanish-speaking environment in the double sense of the physical and in…

Menschenwürde, Menschenrechte und Demokratie

In welcher Beziehung stehen Menschenwurde, Menschenrechte und Demokratie? Dieser Frage ist der vorliegende Beitrag gewidmet. Zur Beantwortung der Frage werde ich folgendermasen vorgehen. Zunachst stelle ich meine Grundannahme zur Menschenwurde vor (1).

Some Remarks on the Concept of Toleration

The paper contains a conceptual analysis of “act of toleration” and the property of “being tolerant”. Being tolerant is understood as a dispositional property of persons manifested in what the author calls the “circumstances of toleration”. The main circumstances distinguished are: a tendency to prohibit a certain behaviour and the competence to determine the deontic status of the behaviour in question. An act of toleration, then, consists in not prohibiting (or cancelling the prohibition of) that behaviour. It is argued that this requires the existence of two different normative systems, the “basic system”, and the “justifying system”. Acts of toleration must be based on reasons coming fro…

Entrevista a Ernesto Garzón Valdés

Dignidad y derechos humanos. 1/3

ConferenciaDuración: 30M

Dignidad y derechos humanos. 2/4

ConferenciaDuración: 30M

Dignidad y derechos humanos. 3/3

ConferenciaDuración: 30M