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Fundamental Rights: Between Morals and Politics
Author(s) -
Martínez Gregorio PecesBarba
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
ratio juris
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1467-9337
pISSN - 0952-1917
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9337.00172
Subject(s) - impossibility , morality , doctrine , politics , fundamental rights , law , human rights , political science , democracy , perspective (graphical) , positivism , sociology , law and economics , artificial intelligence , computer science
Starting from the impossibility of understanding fundamental rights from the standpoint of natural law doctrine or positivism, the author tackles the issue of rights from a realistic point of view, that is to say from the perspective of law and politics on the one hand, and from the perspective of public morality, on the other. Thus the foundation of fundamental rights is the meeting point of conceptions of social morality that are current in the modern world and the political aspect of the conception of pluralist democracy. Moreover, fundamental rights are considered an instrument to enable the social and moral development of human beings.[Note 1. Abstract by Silvia Vida. ...]