http://hdl.handle.net/10016/6466 2013-06-19T02:05:07Z http://hdl.handle.net/10016/10137 Title: The reversibility of economic social and cultural rights in crisis contexts Author(s): Gómez Isa, Felipe Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyse the international legal obligation assumed by states in the area of economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR), and to what extent these obligations can be modified in response to the global financial crisis which has engulfed the world economy since August 2008. 2010-12-31T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10016/9764 Title: Understanding Human Dignity Author(s): Pele, Antonio Abstract: Throughout his Adventures of Ideas, Whitehead defines the history of civilization as the progressive formation of the idea of human dignity, just like a “tiny glow announcing the dawn of a new life order”1. According to Patočka, the role of what he calls the “moderate supercivilization” consists in the creation of goods that can be universalized to all human beings. He insists particularly on two core values: scientific truth and human liberty. Both configure the “recognition of man by man as equal”2. Even if he does not talk explicitly about human dignity, Patočka refers to this notion as the central value of western civilization. Also, and from an historical perspective, Béjar thinks that the “greatest revolution of modernity is the affirmation of the individual as the deciding and unquestionable center of the collective organization”3. With these three preliminary references, it might be possible to think about the idea of human dignity. On one hand, this notion would be the mirror of a moral progress: social and political organizations would find their “raison d’être” in the respect of the value of human being. On the other hand, human dignity would match with a specific historical period (Modernity) and a particular civilization (the Western world). 2009-12-31T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10016/9763 Title: La polémica del velo islámico: algunas estrategias feministas en el laberinto de las identidades Author(s): Pérez de la Fuente, Oscar Abstract: El mito cuenta que Ariadna le explicó a Teseo cómo derrotar al Minotauro y para no perderse en el laberinto le dio un hilo que ella sostendría a la entrada del recinto. Foucault fue más allá y dispuso que Ariadna se colgara del hilo de la identidad, de la memoria, del reconocimiento y Teseo, rotas las amarras, no regresó.3 Mi intención es proponer una versión del mito de Ariadna donde es ella la que se introduce en el laberinto para derrotar al Minotauro y debe desarrollar una serie de estrategias para conseguir su objetivo. Los símbolos de esta versión serían que el Minotauro se corresponde con el sistema sexo/género de dominación, el laberinto y sus pasadizos son los problemas, dilemas y paradojas del discurso de la identidad, el género y el reconocimiento y Ariadna, que es una perspectiva feminista crítica, busca superar al Minotauro, sin perderse en el laberinto. 2009-12-31T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10016/9230 Title: On the Interpretation of the Constitution in a Multicultural Society Author(s): Asís Roig, Rafael de Abstract: The question that I will deal with here is whether the interpretation of the constitution in a multicultural society has special characteristics. Put another way, the issue is whether being in a multicultural society is relevant when it comes to interpreting the Constitution. This is a question conditioned not only by the importance that may be given to cultural pluralism but also by three problems. First, there is the concept of interpretation, second, the concept of the constitution and third, the position taken as regards the specificity or not of constitutional interpretation as opposed to legal interpretation in general. 2009-12-31T23:00:00Z