Human dignity
Human dignity as the ethical foundation of democratic order and fundamental rights.
Human dignity — the inalienable value of each person, regardless of status, merit, or utility — is the moral foundation of modern constitutionalism. From Kant to the 1948 Universal Declaration and the post-war constitutions (German, Italian, Spanish, Latin American), dignity operates as an absolute limit on power. Revista Conciencia Democrática publishes analysis and essays defending that ethical centrality.
Articles on human dignity (3)
- Racism and xenophobia: how do stereotypes degrade the human condition?After the 2026 World Cup, xenophobic attacks on Argentines multiplied. A manifesto against racism, against the fallacy of applying U.S. racial categories to a historically and constitutionally welcoming society, and a defence of human dignity as a non-negotiable principle.
- Israel - Palestine: Positivism as an Explanatory VariableThe Israel-Palestine conflict read through legal positivism: why International Law has been unable to stop human rights violations in Gaza.
- Conscience in the face of indifferenceHuman dignity, public responsibility and Christian tradition in an age marked by the throwaway culture and rejection of the other.
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