De nuevo sobre la dignidad humana
- Pereira Menaut, Antonio Carlos
- Pereira Sáez, Carolina
ISSN: 1132-1989, 2386-3773
Year of publication: 2014
Volume: 25
Issue: 84
Pages: 231-242
Type: Article
More publications in: Cuadernos de bioética
Abstract
Since World War II, human dignity has made its way into many constitutions, bills of rights and international treaties. As its roots can be traced easily back to the Judeo-Christian tradition, and, later on, to the influential Kantian vision, dignity cannot be deemed an entirely new concept. For the same token, it cannot be said that dignity has been entirely alien to the legal realm till 1945. On the other hand, the latest philosophical and anthropological trends, as well as the politicisation of the human being, along with some recent advances in biotechnologies, help to explain its growing presence in the legal world. However, these authors suggest that writing down dignity in legal texts does not fully settle its meaning —not even if such texts are constitutions— and the fact remains that its presence in the judicial reasoning does not always imply being the ratio decidendi, as the study of some relevant judicial decisions shows.
Bibliographic References
- Ballesteros, J. Sobre el sentido del Derecho (2ª ed.), Civitas, Madrid, 1992.
- Ballesteros, J. “Biotecnología, biopolítica y posthumanismo” en Ballesteros, J. y Fernández, E. (coords.), Biotecnología y posthumanismo, Cizur Menor, Aranzadi, 2007, 21-46
- Ballesteros, J.“Más allá de la eugenesia: el posthumanismo como negación del homo patiens”, Cuadernos de Bioética XXIII, 1 (2012), 15-23
- Calo, Z., “Human Dignity and Health Law: Personhood in Recent Bioethical Debates” Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 26, 2 (2012), 473-499.
- García Cuadrado, A., “Problemas constitucionales de la dignidad humana”, Persona y Derecho 67 (2012), 449-551.
- Gregory, B., The Unintended Reformation, The Belknap Press, Cambridge (Mass.), 2012.
- Habermas, J., La Constitución de Europa, Madrid, Trotta, 2012.
- Habermas, J. y Ratzinger, J., Dialéctica de la secularización. Sobre la razón y la religión, Encuentro, Madrid, 2006.
- Kirk, R.,“Introducción”, Pico della Mirandola, G., De Hominis Dignitate, Henry Regnery, Chicago, 1956, pp. xvii-xviii.
- Macklin, R., “Dignity is a Useless Concept”, British Medical Journal 327 (2003), 1419-1421.
- Matláry, J., When Might becomes Human Right, Gracewing, Leominster, 2007.
- Negro, D., El Mito del Hombre Nuevo, Encuentro, Madrid, 2009.
- Ors, A. d’, “La llamada ‘dignidad humana’”, La Ley, XLV, 148 (31.07.1980), 1-4.
- Pereira Menaut, A.C., Lecciones de Teoria Constitucional (3ª ed.), Colex, Madrid, 2010.
- Pinker, S., “The Stupidity of Dignity”, The New Republic, 28. 05.2008.
- Scheler, M., El puesto del Hombre en el Cosmos. La idea de la paz perpetua, Alba, Barcelona, 2000.
- Spaemann, R., “Sobre el concepto de dignidad humana” en Massini, C. I. y Serna, P. (eds.), El derecho a la vida, Eunsa, Pamplona, 1998, 81-110.Serna, P., “La Dignidad de la Persona como principio del Derecho público” Derechos y Libertades 4 (1995), 287-306
- Spaemann, R. “La Dignidad Humana en la Constitución Europea”, Persona y Derecho 52 (2005), 13-77.
- Soto Kloss, E., Derecho Administrativo. Bases Fundamentales, Jurídica, Santiago de Chile, 1996.
- Stith, R., “La prioridad del respeto”, Persona y Derecho 62 (2010), 181-210.
- Taylor, C., Sources of the Self, Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.), 1989.
- Taylor, C.A Secular Age, Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.), 2007.