Constitution, law (natural), and religion in the „European problem" Cover Image

Konstytucja, prawo (naturalne) i religia w „problemie europejskim”
Constitution, law (natural), and religion in the „European problem"

Author(s): Vittorio Possenti
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Fundacja »Lubelska Szkoła Filozofii Chrześcijańskiej«
Keywords: constitution; law; nature; Europe

Summary/Abstract: More than any other continents Europe understands its own identity through a significant notion: the notion of person. The reality of person gives a vigor to the principle of cosmopolitism, that transcends its limits, and raises general history on spiritual level. Some other intuitions correspond with the idea of person, e.g. the equality of men, the abolition of slavery, the overpass of sexual, racial, and religious discrimination, and the principle of freedom and solidarity. The principal problem in the creation of the European Constitution, and in the interpretation of the Charter of Rights, consists in knowing whether the anthropological matrix of humanistic and Christian principles in the secular dimension at least will be in a position to generate a Constitution, or there will be a predominance of the anthropology which appreciates freedom without limits and elevates the autonomy of „self” to some absolute level.

  • Issue Year: 2004
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 31-48
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish