Abstract

QUINTERO CALVACHE, Juan Carlos. Democracy and Human Rights: Compensation for the Loss of Collective Judgment in the Age of Private Capitalism. Pap.polit. [online]. 2017, vol.22, n.1, pp.35-58. ISSN 0122-4409.  https://doi.org/10.11144/javeriana.papo22-1.ddhc.

This work warns that the institutional imaginaries of representative democracy deprive individuals of the power to judge in common the situations of the world they share in a common space, establishing universals that replace individual and collective judgment, in order to decide and judge in advance, in the name of individuals, the events of the social world; from there, it is possible to demonstrate that democracy functions as an extra-organ that compensates for the loss of the power to judge, and performs the judgments and desires of the social agents who live a common world judged in advance by a super power that emerges from the capitalist-liberal economic model and from economic and political globalization. The article resorts to philosophical anthropology and compensation to reveal that liberal capitalism adopts representative democracy as a political model that allows it to assume the orientation of the individual’s life, without appealing to the force to rob him of his faculty of judging and deciding on his world. It was possible to determine that democracy and fundamental rights fulfill the instrumental function of compensating in the individual the loss of autonomy to judge in common the social and political world in the era of globalization. From there, one can understand the scope of democracy and fundamental rights when both are incompatible with capitalist purposes.

Keywords : collective judgment; democracy; liberalism; compensation; consensus.

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