DEMOCRACY AS A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF HUMAN DIGNITY, THE VALUABLE LIFE PROJECT AND SOCIAL HAPPINESS Cover Image

DEMOCRACY AS A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF HUMAN DIGNITY, THE VALUABLE LIFE PROJECT AND SOCIAL HAPPINESS
DEMOCRACY AS A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF HUMAN DIGNITY, THE VALUABLE LIFE PROJECT AND SOCIAL HAPPINESS

Author(s): Jesús Caldera Ynfante
Subject(s): Philosophy, Psychology, Civil Society, Governance, Sociology, Politics and Identity
Published by: Scoala Nationala de Studii Politice si Administrative (SNSPA)
Keywords: democracy; fundamental rights; happiness; human dignity; life project;

Summary/Abstract: Democracy is a fundamental right linked to the realization of a person’s worthy life project regarding its corresponding fulfillment of Human Rights. Along with the procedures to form political majorities, it is mandatory to incorporate the substantial part as a means and end for the normative content of Human Dignity to be carried out allowing it to: i) freely choose a project of valued life with purpose and autonomy ii) to have material and intangible means to function in society; and iii) to live free from harm and fear in order to achieve human flourishing. The integral democracy is a means and an end to materialize individual happiness and the common good as long as everyone has concrete opportunities to unfold its inherent human dignity capacities within the trademark of the democratic constitutional State. Assuming this, integral democracy is the fundamental right of Fundamental Rights.

  • Issue Year: 14/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 203-240
  • Page Count: 37
  • Language: English