El objetivo del artículo es aclarar lo que es propiamente común del bien común y sustentar su irreductibilidad como garantía de la superación de una concepción atomista de sociedad civil. Se comienza abordando la noción de libertad individual y el cuestionamiento de la condición egoísta del ser humano, para luego profundizar en las posibilidades no...
What could Chesterton and Tolkien have to offer to the contemporary po-litical thought and practice? This essay discusses on what they share as a com-mon project in their fiction and dis-cursive writing, that is to find a way to acknowledge the value of the local and personal, while directing private good to the universal through the concept of the...
Aunque las obras principales de Alasdair MacIntyre son muy conocidas, existe un texto inédito que rara vez suele encontrarse citado y que es relevante para comprender sus tesis acerca de la política. El texto recoge con mayor detalle que en otros lugares de la obra del pensador escocés sus tesis acerca del bien común. El propósito de este trabajo e...
Republicanism is the doctrine that public power should always serve the common good of all those subject to its rule. This raises the question how to do so most effectively, either through particular policies or through constitutional structure (“the republican form of government”). The republican philosophical tradition began with Plato and Aristo...
Although MacIntyre's main works are well known, there is an unpublished text that is rarely quoted and is relevant to understanding his theses on Politics. The text contains in greater detail than elsewhere in the MacIntyre´s work his theses on the common good. The purpose of this work is to set out these theses, complementing them with other artic...
This paper seeks to make an approach to the concept of common good as the end of society, the elements of its basic structure so that it can occur. For this a distinction is made between the common good and the particular good, the primacy of the dignity of the person, the relationship of the common good with the natural law, and the importance of ...
As for protection of environment, of management of public programs of education, prevention and control, thinks the author that the Town halls must have every time major implication to make possible, royal and effective the right to a suitable environment, that as beginning of the economic politics and social proclamation our article 45 of the Cons...
Para muchos no existe mayor diferencia programática entre la Izquierda y la Derecha. El objetivo de este trabajo es intentar encontrar explicar las razones de este sentimiento de confusión que refleja el malestar político actual. En efecto, con la posmodernidad y la disrupción numérica, la organización social y las subjetividades se han transformad...
This article argues that: (1) there are real possibilites of applying the notion of common good to the educational sector, (2) it could be more relevant to focus on the quality of education in order to construct context-based indicators and, (3) as the idea of common good stresses “collective virtues”, it would be relevant to take into account the ...
The present text proposes a relationship between the public good and the common good, two expressions that, although close from the lexical point of view, seem dissocia-ted in their areas of research. At first, some reflections are made on the concept of public good from a legal perspective. Afterwards, some reflections are made on the concept of t...
