Law and Freedom

This paper deals with the relationship between metaphysical and legal freedom. Metaphysical freedom is challenged by Mechanism, but cannot be neglected by human beings, whereas legal freedom reduces to what is permitted, ordered, or prohibited by legal norms. It might be that legal freedom is metaph...

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Autor: Villanueva, Fernanda
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2011
País:México
Recursos:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositório:Cuestiones Constitucionales. Revista Mexicana de Derecho Constitucional
Idioma:espanhol
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/5973
Acesso em linha:https://revistas.juridicas.unam.mx/index.php/cuestiones-constitucionales/article/view/5973
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:metaphysical freedom
legal freedom
Constitution
positive freedom
negative freedom
mechanistic model
libertad metafísica
libertad jurídica
Constitución
libertad positiva
libertad negativa
modelo mecanicista
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Resumo:This paper deals with the relationship between metaphysical and legal freedom. Metaphysical freedom is challenged by Mechanism, but cannot be neglected by human beings, whereas legal freedom reduces to what is permitted, ordered, or prohibited by legal norms. It might be that legal freedom is metaphysical freedom despite some asymmetries between them. Moreover, legal freedom could be considered in its positive sense and applied to promote the flourishing of persons. Thus it is proposed a reading of the mexican Constitution in a way that the right to education stated in article 3o. would provide citizens with a number of capacities and dispositions strong enough to resist any diminishing or supressing of such personal liberties as the liberty of religious belief, the liberty of expression and the liberty of movement. Furthermore, assuring those liberties will bring about a kind of robust, creative, flourishing human beings.