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Estudios Políticos
Print version ISSN 0121-5167On-line version ISSN 2462-8433
Abstract
FONNEGRA OSORIO, Claudia Patricia. Benjamin Constant. Freedom, Democracy and Pluralism. Estud. Polit. [online]. 2015, n.47, pp.33-46. ISSN 0121-5167. https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.espo.n47a03.
With an interpretative focus, this article explains why for Benjamin Constant democracy could only appear where a necessary relation between freedom as defense of individual rights -freedom as independency or negative freedom- and freedom conceived as principle of public participation -freedom as autonomy or positive freedom- is present. This article also underscores the importance that the author gave to those traditions that embodied the configuration of a nation's cultural universe. The article concludes that one can find in the work of Constant a clear defense of Rule of Law and pluralism that can enlighten the comprehension of political problems in the contemporary world.
Keywords : Political Philosophy; Freedom; Democracy; Liberalism; Traditionalism; Pluralism.