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Deep Interpretive Disagreements and Theory of Legal Interpretation
2016
This paper deals with deep interpretive disagreements (DID): very profound divergences that may occur in legal interpretation (on single cases, or on similar cases) among judges and jurists. These divergences involve alternative interpretations of certain expressions or phrases (for instance, “human person”, “dignity”, “personal autonomy”, “life”, “health”) and may lead, under certain conditions, to incompatible interpretations of the legal sentences that incorporate these expressions. The most important examples of this kind of legal sentences are constitutional provisions that express principles asserting legal rights. The main thesis of this paper is that DID represent genuine, faultless…
Talis pater, talis filius: the role of discursive strategies, thematic narratives and ideology in Cosa Nostra
2018
The discursive analysis of criminal organizations’ family dynamics and ideological devices may provide important insights into the inner functioning of these groups. In this article, we describe and analyze a specific set of discursive strategies and the thematic narratives emerging from a TV interview with Giuseppe Riina, a member of Cosa Nostra and the son of one of the most important mafia bosses. Our analyses demonstrate the existence of recurring ideological devices such as reductionism, amoralism, familism, verticalism, normalism, victimism and religious relativism. The results are discussed in light of previous research that examines how discursive strategies and narratives may repre…
Utopía, derecho y moral en Mi lucha de K. O. Knausgård
2020
La novela autobiográfica de Knausgård es un caso paradigmático para el análisis del vínculo entre derecho y literatura, porque permite tener tres perspectivas del mismo: la del derecho en, de y como literatura. En este artículo se hace hincapié en la primera. La tesis que se defiende es que la problemática postura de Knausgård de hablar de “utopía nazi” es comprensible si se la compara con los problemas de hablar de un derecho nazi. Siendo el aspecto más criticable el relativismo moral que sustenta dicha concepción, que le impide tener una visión más cabal del elemento justificativo de las utopías y del derecho. Knausgård's autobiographical novel is a paradigmatic case for the analysis of t…
Un espacio para la pérdida: una aproximación particularista al conflicto de valores
2017
A lo largo de esta tesis, defenderé una lectura de los conflictos de valores que asume la pérdida trágica como un hecho inevitable. Desde esta lectura, allí donde dos valores o demandas entran en tensión genuina, atesorar o responder a uno de ellos comporta renunciar al otro, sin que un premio ulterior compense el daño causado por la pérdida. Por más que un sujeto o una sociedad se esfuercen en buscar una resolución consoladora, es imposible proteger todos los valores en juego y atender a todas las necesidades que afloran en este tipo de situaciones. Por ello, si los valores involucrados en un conflicto tienen un peso central en la vida de las personas afectadas, esta tensión marcará de por…
Counter-Clock World: How Planning Backwards Helps in Moving Forward in Collapsing Environments
2021
Research on corporate decline and turnarounds as well as the strategic use of history have so far remained two separate research fields. We integrate these two fields with a thought experiment, proposing ways in which strategists can work with, and through time in managing and turning around declines. Our thought experiment involves two very different types of analogies: a textual one from Philip K. Dick’s science fiction novels, on the one hand, and a visual one from Einsteinian relativity science, on the other hand. Inspired and informed by these different conceptualizations of the past and time, we develop four forms of backward strategizing to successfully manage a struggling corporatio…
La antropología como ciencia libidinosa. Diderot y el viaje de Bougainville
2005
Son innumerables los estudios que han abordado, desde temprano, la historia de la constitución de la antropología como disciplina empírica con vocación 'científica', como una de las ciencias humanas. Se muestra así una cierta obsesión por los orígenes, quizá síntoma de una frágil identidad. Uno de esos textos, de los más tempranos, The History of Anthropology} 1 fue escrito por Boas justo al principio del siglo pasado (1904) y tiene por objeto -fue una conferencia dada ante un publico académico variopintoreflexionar históricamente sobre una disciplina que todavía se debate para delimitar cuál es su objeto y método epistemológicos. Boas advierte desde el principio que no va a proceder dicien…
Il concetto di relativismo
2012
The attitude towards boycotts: determining factors
2019
According to the theories of reasoned action and planned behavior, the precedent to any human conduct is the intention to display such conduct. People’s attitudes are one of those precedents. Our work is framed within this line of research, as it seeks to analyze and explain the main determinants of attitudes towards boycotts. Thus, we understand that consumers’ attitudes towards boycott behavior depend on three fundamental beliefs: perceived legitimacy of the behavior, ethical idealism towards such behavior, and finally, ethical relativism towards boycott behavior. We emphasize legitimacy since the relevance of legitimacy processes in the businessclient relationship lies in the validation …
Relativism. A conceptual analysis
2010
In this paper, first, I will try to give a conceptual definition of relativism, with the aim of singling out the basic elements common to the most relevant relativist conceptions. I will qualify as “relativistic” all conceptions in which all or a relevant part of its criteria and beliefs necessarily depend on a given context. Secondly, I will deal with some critical observations against relativism. From this point of view, a problem arises from the fact that many relativists would like to have the chance ofexpressing some objective judgments. Lastly, I will propose a relativistic conception: one that doesn’t incorporate absolutist elements at all and nevertheless could be able to explain th…
Relativism and radical conservatism
2019
The chapter tackles the complex, tension-ridden, and often paradoxical relationship between relativism and conservatism. We focus particularly on radical conservatism, an early twentieth-century German movement that arguably constitutes the climax of conservatism’s problematic relationship with relativism. We trace the shared genealogy of conservatism and historicism in nineteenth-century Counter-Enlightenment thought and interpret radical conservatism’s ambivalent relation to relativism as reflecting this heritage. Emphasizing national particularity, historical uniqueness, and global political plurality, Carl Schmitt and Hans Freyer moved in the tradition of historicism, stopping short of …