Freedom, Justice and Recognition [Spanish]

Authors

  • Francisco Cortés Rodas Universidad de Antioquia, Instituto de Filosofía

Abstract

This article shows that the theory of justice and liberty developed by Axel Honneth in Freedom´s Right, has a wider range and depth than those theories of justice and de­mocracy developed in contemporary liberalism by Rawls and Habermas. Nevertheless, its normative model of recognition has a serious limitation, which consists in circum­scribing the reach of its conception of freedom to the most developed western societies. This limitation affects the proposal in a negative way; it produces an important loss of its critical potential and determines that its normative and reconstructive approach of freedom’s history may be insufficient in front of other critical visions of society. First, the author does a presentation of the tension between the negative and positive dimensions of freedom. Then, he reconstructs the way in which Honneth exposes the historical process of the fight for freedom and thus structures a definition of this fight, which includes three dimensions of freedom: juridical, moral and social. Finally, the author develops some critical considerations dealing with Honneth’s recognition model, as it does not acknowledge other historical experiences of the fight for freedom

Author Biography

  • Francisco Cortés Rodas, Universidad de Antioquia, Instituto de Filosofía

    Doctor en Filosofía, Universidad de Konstanz (Alemania), Filósofo y Magister en Filosofía, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. Estancias postdoctorales en la Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universitat Frankfurt y en Columbia University, becario del DAAD y de la Fundación Alexander von Humboldt. Profesor titular y actual Director del Instituto de Filosofía de la Universidad de Antioquia. Campos de especialidad: Filosofía Política, Filosofía moral, Liberalismo, Derechos Humanos.

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Published

2017-11-20

Issue

No. 28 (2018): January-June 2018

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