¿Es posible un Derecho justo?

La justicia es un presupuesto interior y un fin. El derecho es un medio. La justicia debe, por ello, sustentarse en estructuras inteligentes y éticamente ordenadas. La justicia, para serlo, necesita, reconoce y mantiene esas estructuras y posee la capacidad de transformarlas. Para hacerlo, su ...

Partiality and impartiality

morality, special relationships, and the wider world

Eds. Brian Feltham, John Cottingham. Issues of impartiality and partiality are a major focus of debate in moral theory. What demands do the needs and interests of others place upon us? Should our personal relationships and commitments have a special place in our moral deliberations ...

El orden jurídico de la libertad

la aportación de F.A. Hayek al estudio del Derecho

Prol. Jesús Huerta de Soto ; Prefaci de César Martínez Meseguer. Friedrich A. Hayek, premio Nobel de Economía, tuvo una vida académica e intelectual caracterizada por el ánimo multidisciplinar de sus investigaciones. Del estudio de los procesos de mercado, del dinero, de la producción y de ...

Ética en las ciencias sociales

Aut. León Mª Gómez Rivas...[et al]. La reforma educativa consecuencia del llamado Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior ha incorporado algunas materias nuevas a los planes de estudios, así como ha enfatizado la formación en competencias y valores complementarios a los contenidos más teóricos. La ...

Il filosofo del diritto davanti alla crisi della complessità

A cura di Luisa Avitabile. SOMMARIO: RELAZIONI: Gino Capozzi 'La filosofia del diritto come critica della regione giuridica'. Francesco Mercadante 'Mariano Cristaldi'. Bruno Romano 'Diritto e filosofia nella crisi della complessità'. Abelardo Rivera Llano 'Le riposte del filosofo del diritto alla crisi della complassità, nell ...

Los derechos sociales en el siglo XXI

un desafío clave para el Derecho y la Justicia

Eds. Silvina Robotta, Andrés Rossetti. Gran parte de los seres humanos que actualmente habitan el planeta sufren violaciones sobre sus derechos sociales en forma cotidiana, muchas veces incluso graves y masivas. La pobreza y la exclusión social les condenan a vivir en viviendas inadecuadas, a ...

En armonía con la naturaleza

reconstrucción medioambiental de la filosofía

Quizás pueda escribirse algún día que el gran descubrimiento de finales del siglo XX fue el problema ecológico. A este propósito se cita reiteradamente una frase de E. U. von Weizsäcker: #el siglo XXI será el siglo del medio ambiente#. Huyendo de la civilización del ...

Lo stile legale

Un antico e modernissimo interlocutore per gli avvocati di oggi: il cardinale De Luca, uno dei più celebri protagonisti del foro del Seicento, un efficace maestro di dottrina e, a tutt'oggi, di pratica. A conclusione della sua grande opera, il "Theatrum veritatis", e a ...

Le insidie del linguaggio giuridico

saggio sulle metafore nel diritto

Nella sua lunga esperienza di giurista, più volte Francesco Galgano si è imbattuto in figure del linguaggio giuridico, a volte corrispondenti a categorie centrali del diritto, che si sono rivelate null'altro che metafore. La metafora del resto è presente in ogni forma di comunicazione ...

Remorse

psychological and jurisprudential perspectives

This volume draws on Psychology and Law to present an interdisciplinary study of remorse. The psychological treatment first examines the definition, features, and relationship of remorse to other emotions. Secondly, the personal effects of remorse, as a form of psychological distress, and the effects of ...

The enforcement of morals

The limits of individual freedom within society - the boundaries of the public and the private in the realm of morals, and the point at which the law may enter - are the core concern of these seven essays by prominent British jurist Lord Patrick Devlin.

Intellectual Property and theories of justice

Eds. Axel Gosseries, Alain Marciano, Alain Strowel. In this volume, fourteen philosophers, economists and legal scholars and one computer scientist address various facets of the same question: under which conditions (if any) can intellectual property rights be fair? This general question unfolds in a variety ...

Michael Oakeshott's Skepticism

The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) is known as a conservative who rejected philosophically ambitious rationalism and the grand political ideologies of the twentieth century on the grounds that no human ideas have ultimately reliable foundations. Instead, he embraced tradition and habit as the guides ...

Ratio and voluntas

the tension between reason and wild in Law

From the ancient beginnings of Western legal tradition, law has been conceived as traversed by a fundamental tension between power (will) and reason. This volume examines the tension between these two poles, 'ratio and voluntas' in modern law. Part I focuses on three instructive phases ...

Cultivating conscience

how good laws make good people

Contemporary law and public policy often treat human beings as selfish creatures who respond only to punishments and rewards. Yet every day, we behave unselfishly - few of us mug the elderly or steal the paper from our neighbor's yard, and many of us go ...

Shakespearean genealogies of power

a whispering of nothing in Hamlet, Richard II, Julius Caesar, MacBeth, The merchant of Venice, and the Winter's Tale

"Shakespearean Genealogies of Power: A Whispering of Nothing" addresses the new perspective on normativity opened up by Shakespeare's stage, as a visible space between the spheres of politics and law.

The animal rights debate

abolition or regulation?

Gary L. Francione is a law professor and leading philosopher of animal rights theory. Robert Garner is a political theorist specializing in the philosophy and politics of animal protection. Francione maintains that we have no moral justification for using nonhumans and argues that because animals ...

El balance de la autonomía

cinco ensayos

Eds. Gustavo Leyva, Carlos Peresa. Uno de los motivos rectores en la reflexión de Martin Seel ha sido el de intentar pensar de qué modo pueden establecerse vasos comunicantes entre la experiencia estética, la ética y la teórico-cognitiva, es decir, entre la estética, la filosofía ...

Between authority and interpretation

In this book Joseph Raz develops his views on some of the central questions in practical philosophy: legal, political, and moral. The book provides an overview of Raz's work on jurisprudence and the nature of law in the context of broader questions in the ...

La imposición de la moral

Estudio introductorio de Andrea Rodríguez Liboreiro. Patrick Devlin (1905-1992), en diálogo crítico con H.L.A. Hart, plantea en esta obra hasta qué punto la moral social determinada por el hombre del autobús de Clapham debe verse reflejada en las normas jurídicas. Teniendo como pretexto ...