Abstract

LUQUE, Pau. The Irenist Conception of the Constitution: On the Possibility of a Harmonic Reconstruction of the Ethical-Substantive Content of the Constitutional State. Isonomía [online]. 2013, n.38, pp.35-65. ISSN 1405-0218.

This paper explores the possibility of interpreting contemporary constitutions in a harmonic way, that is, in an irenist way. The most important objections to which an irenist conception of the constitution should respond to are the "incoherence objection" and the "non-stability objection." The former claims that harmony is not possible because of the normative conflicts among the different items that can be found in contemporary constitutions. The later denies the possibility of a harmony of the universalistic type. An irenist conception intending to be plausible should be able to give an answer to each of these objections.

Keywords : Irenism; constitution; ethical content; normative dilemmas; particularism.

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