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El Derecho como instrumento de educación moral
(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2020) Contreras, F.J. (Francisco José)
The mainstream tradition of Western moral and political philosophy was perfectionist, that is, it believed law and government could and should contribute to the moral improvement of people. This article examines the perfectionist arguments of Aristotle, Saint Augustin and Aquinas, as well as John S. Mill’s ≪harm principle≫, a classical reference for anti-perfectionists. It also reconstructs the controversy between Patrick Devlin and H.L.A. Hart on the matter of ≪morals laws≫. Finally, it proposes Rawls’s work as a paradigm of contemporary anti-perfectionism, and Joseph Raz’s ≪perfectionist liberalism≫ and Robert P. George’s considerations on ≪moral ecology≫ as instances of a perfectionism that lives up to the needs and constraints of our time.