Abstract

DI SANTO, Luigi. The Philosophy of Peace and Human Dignity. Frónesis [online]. 2009, vol.16, n.2, pp.233-248. ISSN 1315-6268.

The times in which we live, altered by infinite conflicts, indicate the outlines for a new area of debate about meaning, the reasons for the war-peace binomial and legal implications; in a few words, about the proximity of the phenomenon of peace to human rights. War is rupture and the legal order that it obtains assumes the political connotations of a regime legitimated through the consensus from which a government takes its life; the monopoly off force is activated in the forms of statehood. It would seem indispensable to put into action the possible beginning of a route of liberation for peace, understood as a condition of philosophical possibility that is filled with meaning in overcoming the empty unreality of conflict; in making a vital and at the same time, programmatic understanding; in delineating cultural foundations for a philosophy of meaningful creativity. The method used is documentary. Conclusions are that peace as a beginning is developed as an end and not as a means, as Aristotle has already indicated in Politics.

Keywords : Peace; dignity; war; human rights; politics.