Ernesto Garzón Valdés

Ernesto Garzón Valdés ( born February 17, 1927 in Córdoba, Argentina ) is an Argentine- German legal philosopher, political scientist and university professor.

Life

Garzón Valde studied law, philosophy, political science and sociology in Cordoba, Madrid, Munich, Bonn and Cologne. Until 1974 he was Professor of Philosophy of Law at the Universities of Cordoba and La Plata and a member of the Argentine Foreign Service ( inter alia, head of the cultural department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ); 1974 saw the posting as ambassador to the Argentine Embassy in Bonn; little later, however, he was the political persecution by the government Isabel Perón exposed with loss of diplomatic and academic positions, so that he lived in exile in Germany.

After teaching at the universities of Bonn, Cologne and Mainz, he was since 1981 Professor of Political Science at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

The rehabilitation and resumption of the diplomatic service in the rank of Ambassador took place only in the 1980s under President Alfonsin.

However Garzón Valdés did not return to active diplomatic service back, but remained as a professor at the University of Mainz and was a visiting professor also at numerous universities abroad ( inter alia, in Finland, Italy and Spain, Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Peru ).

Work priorities and work

Garzón Valdés ' main scientific interest is in the analysis of fundamental legal and political science terms (u a: legal validity, stability, tolerance, representation, responsibility, equality, corruption, human dignity, terrorism), Political Ethics ( legitimacy of political systems, social justice, rule of law ) and the political and social conditions in Latin America (especially Argentina and Mexico).

More generally, Garzón Valdés ' work to be regarded as political theory and legal philosophy foundation. He is a classical liberal, which the universal protection of the individual against the arbitrary particular state authorities is a particular concern. This is reflected among others in the rejection of group-related rights, but also in the rejection of cultural relativism. Rights he would generally beyond the reach of arbitrary definitions settle by state authorities. Compared to the positive law Stemming the civil sovereign he is at the same time, however, skeptical and worried accordingly to the stability of constitutional political systems in particular. Issues such as the relationship of law to paternalism and tolerance drove him to even before this general economy had. The choice of topics is certainly also due to his life-long involvement in issues of often very unhappy Argentine practical politics.

Honors

Order

  • Commander of the Order of San Carlos, Colombia 1972
  • Commander of the Order Bernardo O'Higgins, Chile 1971
  • Commander of the National Order of Merit, Ecuador 1972
  • Commander of the Order of Merit, Italy 1973
  • Great Federal Cross of Merit, Federal Republic of Germany 1972
  • Grand Officer of the Order of the Liberator, Venezuela 1973

Festschrift

  • Werner Krawietz, Georg Henrik von Wright ( ed.): Public or private morality? From the validity of reason and the legitimacy of the law. Festschrift for Ernesto Garzón Valdés. Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-428-07435-1.

Publications

Numerous publications have appeared in Spanish, German, English and Italian, including, inter alia, the following books:

  • Derecho y " naturaleza de las cosas " ( The right and the " nature of things "). 2 vols Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba ( Argentina) in 1970.
  • El concepto de estabilidad de los sistemas políticos. . Centro de Estudios Constitucionales, Madrid 1987 edition: fontamara, Mexico City 1992.
  • The stability of political systems. Analysis of the concept with case studies from Latin America. Karl Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1988, ISBN 3-495-47660-1.
  • Derecho, ética y política ( law, ethics and politics. Collected Essays ). Centro de Estudios Constitucionales, Madrid 1993.
  • El Velo de la Ilusión. Apuntes para una Biografía argentina ( The veil of illusion. Argentine Notes on a biography). Sudamericana, Buenos Aires 2000.
  • Instituciones suicidas. Estudios de Etica y Política ( Suicidal institutions. Ethical- political studies ). Paidos, Mexico City 2000.
  • Filosofía, política, derecho (philosophy, politics, law ). Edited by Javier de Lucas. Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, 2001.
  • Tolleranza, responsabilità e Stato di diritto. Saggi di filosofia morale e politica (tolerance, responsibility and the rule of law. Moral and politkphilosophische essays ). Bologna 2003.
  • Calamidades. Gedisa, Barcelona 2005, ISBN 84-97840-48-8.
  • Por qué estoy aquí. Tres justificaciones y una excusa (Why I'm here. Three justifications and an apology ). La Rioja ( Argentina), Universidad Nacional 2005
  • Tolerancia, dignidad y democracia (tolerance, dignity and democracy). Universidad Inca Garcilaso del la Vega, Lima, 2006.
  • ( with Norberto Spolansky, Carlos S. Nino and María E. Urquijo ): Lenguaje y acción humana ( language and human action ). Ad-Hoc Buenos Aires in 2007.
  • Propuestas ( proposals ). Trotta, Barcelona 2011.

Edited and co- editor.

  • Latin American studies in the philosophy of law. ( Archive for Legal and Social Philosophy Volume 4) Neuwied, Luchterhand 1965.
  • Derecho y Filosofía. Barcelona, ​​Alfa 1985, 2nd edition 1988; Mexico City, fontamara 1989
  • ( with E. Bulygin ): Argentine legal theory and legal philosophy today. Berlin, Duncker & Humblot 1987. ISBN 9783428063055
  • ( with Manfred Mols and Arnold Spitta ): La democracia argentina actual. Buenos Aires, Sudamericana 1988.
  • Spanish Studies for the Philosophy of Right. Berlin, Duncker & Humblot 1990. ISBN 9783428068234
  • ( with J. Bähr, S. Horl - Groenewold, K. Kohut and H. Pietschmann ): The conquered continent. Historical reality, justification and literary representation of Kolonialierung America. Frankfurt am Main, Vervuert 1991.
  • ( with Fernando Salmerón ): Epistemologia y cultura. En torno a la obra de Luis Villoro. Mexico City, National Autonomous University of México 1993
  • ( with Ruth Room Ling ): facets of the truth. Festschrift for Meinolf Wewel. Freiburg / Munich, Karl Alber 1995. ISBN 978-3-495-47820-2
  • ( with Werner Krawietz, Georg H. von Wright and Ruth Room Ling ): Normative Systems in Legal and Moral Theory. Festschrift for Carlos E. Alchourrón and Eugenio Bulygin. Berlin, Duncker & Humblot 1996. ISBN 9783428086917
  • ( with Francisco Laporta ): Derecho y Justicia, Vol 11 of the Enciclopedia Iberoamericana de Filosofía. Madrid, Trotta 1996.
  • ( with Aulis Aarnio and Jyrki Uusitalo ): La normatividad del Derecho. Barcelona, ​​Gedisa 1996.
  • ( with Werner Krawietz and Agustín Squella ): Political power structures and new constitutionalism - Latin America and Europe in Comparative Perspective theory. Legal Theory Supplement 13/2001

Some German -language posts from previous years, selected from more than 200 essays and articles

  • "Considerations on Organ Transplantation ". In: Analysis & Review, 2/1995
  • " State terrorism, justice, and justice." In: The Pinochet case ( s ). Edited by Heiko Ahlbrecht and Kai Ambos, Nomos, Baden -Baden 1999. ISBN 9783789064104
  • " Argentine democracy today: ethical and political problems of overcoming the dictatorship. " In: Legal Theory, Supplement 13/2001
  • " Corruption - systemic relativity of a universal phenomenon ." In: visibility and invisibility of power. Theories of political corruption editor v. Harald Bluhm, Karsten Fischer. Nomos, Baden -Baden 2002. ISBN 9783789082719
  • " The cultural roots of Latin America in Europe and its current re-evaluation ". In: Loccumer protocols 09/ 03, Evangelische Akademie Loccum 2003 ISBN 978-3-8172-0903-3.
  • " Hypocrisy, compassion and the rule of law ". In: Manuel Atienza, Enrico Pattaro, Martin Schulte, Boris Topornin y Wyduckel Dieter (eds. ), theory of law and society. Festschrift for Werner Krawietz 70th birthday. Duncker & Humblot Verlag, Berlin, Berlin, 2003. ISBN 9783428113941
  • "Relations between Germany and Spanish America in the field of social sciences and philosophy." In: The German - Spanish cultural relations in a European context. Edited by Wolfgang Bader and Ignacio Olmos. Vervuert, Frankfurt am Main, 2004. ISBN 3-86527-103-0
  • "Alternative systems of norms on state law in Latin America" ​​. In: rule of law in the age of globalization. Edited by Rolf Kappel, Hans Werner Tobler, Peter Waldmann. Rombach, Freiburg, 2005. ISBN 978-3793093787
  • "On the moral evaluation of corruption. A proposal ". In: Political quarterly. Special Issue 35/2005
  • "Five Theses on the Argentine political culture." In: Argumentation and political legitimacy. Edited by Jan- R. Sieck. Nomos, Baden -Baden 2006. ISBN 9783832921118
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