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Substance and Procedure in Discourse Ethics and Deliberative DemocracyDissertation, New School for Social Research. 2003.In this dissertation, I argue that we should reframe the presentation and defense of the program of discourse ethics and deliberative democracy (DEP) in such a way that we make clear its connection to the substantive moral ideas of solidarity, equality and freedom. This program basically says that we should, when we can, determine the validity of the norms regulating our social life through practices of public deliberation. If we want to understand why engaging in public deliberation makes mora…Read more
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1010Justice and BeneficenceCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 19 (5): 508-533. 2016.What is a duty of justice? And how is it different from a duty of beneficence? We need a clear account of the contrast. Unfortunately, there is no consensus in the philosophical literature as to how to characterize it. Different articulations of it have been provided, but it is hard to identify a common core that is invariant across them. In this paper, I propose an account of how to understand duties of justice, explain how it contrasts with several proposals as to how to distinguish justice an…Read more
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45How should we think about the Relation between Principles and Agency?Ethics and Global Politics 6 (2): 75-83. 2013.In this article, I will reflect on Lea Ypi’s methodological contribution in her wonderful book Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency. Ypi addresses the important and underexplored issue of the relation between normative principles and political agency. She proposes a ‘dialectical approach’ to normative political theory, which she contrasts with ‘ideal’ and ‘non-ideal’ approaches, arguing that the first does a better job in articulating progressive guidelines for political agents seekin…Read more
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24Considerations on the Notion of Moral Validity in the Moral Theories of Kant and HabermasKant Studien 97 (2): 210-227. 2006.In what follows I will consider Kant's and Habermas's conceptions of moral validity in a comparative and critical way. First, I will reconstruct Habermas's discursive or deliberative reformulation of Kant's moral theory. And, second, I will introduce some comparative critical considerations. I will contend that, though much is gained with Habermas's intersubjectivist reformulation of Kant's moral philosophy, some problems emerge that could be treated with the help of certain Kantian insights. I …Read more
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83A substantivist construal of discourse ethicsInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 13 (3). 2005.This paper presents a substantivist construal of discourse ethics, which claims that we should see our engagement in public deliberation as expressing and elaborating a substantive commitment to basic moral ideas of solidarity, equality, and freedom. This view is different from Habermas's standard formalist defence of discourse ethics, which attempts to derive the principle of discursive moral justification from primarily non-moral presuppositions of rational argumentation as such. After explica…Read more
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244The feasibility of basic socioeconomic human rights: A conceptual explorationPhilosophical Quarterly 59 (237): 659-681. 2009.To be justifiable, the demands of a conception of human rights and global justice must be such that (a) they focus on the protection of important human interests, and (b) their fulfilment is feasible. I discuss the feasibility condition. I present a general account of the relation between moral desirability, feasibility and obligation within a conception of justice. I analyse feasibility, a complex idea including different types, domains and degrees. It is possible to respond in various ways if …Read more
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339Relaciones Sociales, Conflicto e Historia. Una Interpretación de 'Dialéctica' en MarxIn Maria Luisa Femenias (ed.), Cuatro concepciones de Dialéctica., Editorial De La Universidad Nacional De La Plata. pp. 117-146. 1998.
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28Les perspectives humaniste et politique sur les droits humainsPhilosophiques 42 (2): 251-282. 2015.Pablo Gilabert,Aude Bandini | : Cet article s’intéresse au lien entre deux perspectives qui concernent la nature des droits humains. Selon la perspective « politique » ou « pratique », les droits humains sont des revendications que les individus entretiennent face à un certain nombre de structures institutionnelles, dans certains États modernes, en vertu des intérêts qui sont les leurs selon les contextes qui les mettent en jeu. Selon la perspective « humaniste » ou « naturaliste », plus traditi…Read more
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