La presente investigación pretende enriquecer y repensar los fundamentos filosóficos que permiten determinar la inalienabilidad de la existencia humana. Cuando se hace referencia a la vida del hombre como merecedora de respeto suele usarse el término dignidad humana. Sin embargo, como señala Atienza (2010), este término a menudo suele ser utilizado de una manera poco clara en cuanto a su significado y, a menudo, de forma meramente descalificativa mas no propositiva en cuanto a argumentos. En efecto, el abuso de dicho término ha generado que su sentido originario se vea empañado por la inespecificidad, habiéndose por tanto vuelto equívoco. Por tal motivo, en la presente investigación he optado por utilizar el término inalienabilidad para describir aquella característica de inviolabilidad que se desprende como imperativo moral en virtud de ser persona, término por el cual se a...

This article aims to provide the reader with an approach to a bounded aspect of the thought of the Spanish philosopher Xavier Zubiri (1898-1983). Particularly, it seeks to explore Zubiri’s philosophical anthropology by means of the analysis of his concept of personal reality. Given that, for this author, ontology and philosophical anthropology are interrelated terms, the text offers a brief review of Zubiri’s conception of reality, and how it makes itself present to human beings understood as animal of realities. By means of the recognition of reality as existent by itself, it ispossible to gain access to the modus existendi of the human person and to its main characters: open essence and ‘suidad’.

Ratio, as a universal attribute of human being, would be the essential element to establish forms of political praxis deprived of any kind of coercion. The present article aims to introduce the reader to this controversy by means of the considerations made by the philosopher Robert Spaemann. In order to fulfill this objective, we will first explore what made Spaemann involve in the debate. Then, we will study the concept of power and freedom in Spaemann´s work. In the third section of the article, we will explain and discuss our author´s oucome to the controversy. Finally, we will offer some reflections in regard of this subject.

Realiza un análisis ético y jurídico sobre una práctica que ha sido llevada a cabo desde los primeros años de la historia de la civilización, a saber, la destrucción deliberada y consciente del ser humano en gestación. Se trata de un problema ético que, debido a la cotidianidad inherente a su práctica, en muchos casos ya no se considera tal. Sin embargo, se considera que tal enunciado debe ser puesto en discusión y no aceptado sin más, pues están en juego dos variables que no pueden ser tomadas con ligereza, a saber, la forma en que se da la autocomprensión ontológica de la comunidad de personas que es la sociedad y, asimismo, la eticidad de un acto que, por su misma naturaleza es irreversible y en el que determinar dicha eticidad podría ser sumamente complejo, toda vez que en esta situación se presentan colisiones de valores.

This article aims to provide the reader with an approach to a bounded aspect of the thought of the Spanish philosopher Xavier Zubiri (1898-1983). Particularly, it seeks to explore Zubiri’s philosophical anthropology by means of the analysis of his concept of personal reality. Given that, for this author, ontology and philosophical anthropology are interrelated terms, the text offers a brief review of Zubiri’s conception of reality, and how it makes itself present to human beings understood as animal of realities. By means of the recognition of reality as existent by itself, it ispossible to gain access to the modus existendi of the human person and to its main characters: open essence and ‘suidad’.

Ratio, as a universal attribute of human being, would be the essential element to establish forms of political praxis deprived of any kind of coercion. The present article aims to introduce the reader to this controversy by means of the considerations made by the philosopher Robert Spaemann. In order to fulfill this objective, we will first explore what made Spaemann involve in the debate. Then, we will study the concept of power and freedom in Spaemann´s work. In the third section of the article, we will explain and discuss our author´s oucome to the controversy. Finally, we will offer some reflections in regard of this subject.