Tthe theory of democracy and the relationship between Human Rights and popular sovereignty

Alpha (Osorno) 48:139-150 (2019)
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Resumen: El artículo discute el componente kantiano en la teoría democrática deliberativa. Parte sosteniendo que Kant no solo incorpora derechos individuales sino que también la idea de soberanía popular. Este pensador considera la democracia, pero un sistema de principios tiene prioridad normativa respecto de la práctica de autolegislación colectiva. Después, el escrito muestra que la teoría democrática habermasiana elabora un argumento similar al kantiano. Por tanto, no reconstruye el balance entre derechos y democracia como pretende sino de forma similar a como lo hace Kant.: This article discusses the Kantian component in the theory of deliberative democracy. It begins claiming that Kant not only incorporates individual rights but also the idea of popular sovereignty: This author values democracy; however, a system of principles has normative priority over the practice of collective self-determination. The text later shows that Habermas’s theory of deliberative democracy elaborates a Kantian justification. Thus, it does not reconstruct the balance between rights and democracy as it claims to do; it rather builds an argument similar to Kant’s.

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David Martínez
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Religion in the Public Sphere.Jürgen Habermas - 2006 - European Journal of Philosophy 14 (1):1-25.
Habermas.Kenneth Baynes - 2015 - New York: Routledge.
Reflections on Habermas on Democracy.Joshua Cohen - 1999 - Ratio Juris 12 (4):385-416.

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