Communitarianist perspective of fundamental rights: issues about the objective dimension
| Autor | Raoni Macedo Bielschowsky - Rodrigo Antonio Calixto de Pina Gomes Mello |
| Páginas | 2456-2466 |
2456 • XXVI World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
Communitarianist perspective of Fundamental Rights
Issues about the objective dimension
Raoni Macedo Bielschowsky
Rodrigo Antonio Calixto de Pina Gomes Mello
AbstractA worldview and the freedom perspective are very inuent in the
political standpoint, consequently in the State conception, in the Constitution-
al Theory positioning and in the fundamental rights point of view. Especially
these rights are very close to the freedom topic discussion, which reveals not
only philosophic issues, but, also, pragmatics and dogmatic consequences. Con-
sider the fundamental rights the apex of a cultural system, on its axiological
basisimpliestoidentiestheobjectivedimensionoffundamentalrightswitha
particularly importance. Because if the freedom is understood by a holistic and
concrete angle: “my freedom is part of the others community members’ freedom
and the freedom of each community participant is also part of my own freedom”.
Keywords: Communitarianism – concrete freedom – fundamental rights
1. Introduction
The Liberalism vs. Communitarianism debate takes shape in the
sandsAngloAmericanphilosophicaldiscussionespeciallysince
the Rpublication ATheoryofJusticersteditedin1. There
aretwoimportantaspectsinthisstruggleTherstoneconcernedto
which is the individual subjacent to modernity2 and another one about
the justice idea and sources distribution politics.
Actually, this dispute is inserted in two others wide issues. The
1
e book has a revised edition of 1999. RAWLS, John. eory of Justice. 2nd Cam-
bridge: Harvard Press, 1999.is is the edition used for this paper.
2
PEREIRA COUTINHO, Luís Pedro. Autoridade moral da Constituição: da fundamen-
tação da validade do Direito Constitucional. Coimbra: Coimbra Editora, 2009.
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