Political Ethics and European Constitution
Is the dream of EU endangered? This book reviews classic and modern values and virtues, and uses them in order to rethink Europe’s present politics and its future. The idea of the Republic was born with the political ethics of ancient Greece. The current
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Paulo Ferreira da Cunha
Political Ethics and European Constitution
SpringerBriefs in Law
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Paulo Ferreira da Cunha
Political Ethics and European Constitution
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Paulo Ferreira da Cunha Faculty of Law University of Porto Porto Portugal
and School of Law University Anhembi Morumbi (Laureate International Universities) São Paulo Brazil
ISSN 2192-855X SpringerBriefs in Law ISBN 978-3-662-45599-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-45600-2
ISSN 2192-8568 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-662-45600-2
(eBook)
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To the Founding Fathers of Europe D.D.D.
Sources This book takes inspiration from some previous work, mainly my book Para uma Ética Constitucional, Lisbon, Coisas de Ler, 2010 and some miscellaneous articles.
Preface
A most stimulating intellectual exercise, from the perspective of cultural history and philosophy, is to examine the main aporia of Law, that is, of legal thinking: Law and legal thinking seek to base themselves on the same human territory of legality and historicity from which, at this very moment, dare to reformulate or refound the bases of another illud tempus, an ought (Sollen) for which we do not have the ontological answer, though we may already formulate the ethical questions. Law and thinking about law are occurring in the present or the near future, and without such an aspiration these texts would remain a dead letter, thinking without thought. Between the world that is and the expected one, about which there are only outlines, lies a ravine of deep meanings. Approaching from the proper direction, but in order to build the bridges, it is recognized that the path is narrow and hard to run which, more
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