%0 Journal Article
%T El contrato social en el liberalismo pol¨ªtico de Rawls Social contract in Rawls¡¯ political liberalism
%A Mariano C Melero de la Torre
%J Revista de Derecho
%D 2004
%I Universidad Austral de Chile
%X La relevancia del pensamiento de John Rawls en la filosof¨ªa pol¨ªtica actual se debe, entre otras razones, a que incluye los dos tipos de justificaci¨®n actualmente preponderantes de un r¨¦gimen democr¨¢tico constitucional. La evoluci¨®n de su teor¨ªa contractual representa de manera ejemplar los dos posibles usos del contrato social como principio de legitimaci¨®n pol¨ªtica. Nuestra primera intenci¨®n aqu¨ª es poner de manifiesto el contraste entre ambos usos, para luego pasar a analizar las dificultades que lleva consigo el uso meramente "pol¨ªtico" del m¨¦todo contractual que defiende el ¨²ltimo Rawls. The relevance of John Rawls¡¯ thought in the political philosophy of our time is due, among other reasons, to the fact that it includes the two types of justifications currently in vogue in any constitutional democratic regime. The evolution of his contractual theory represents exemplarily the two possible uses of the social contract as political legitimation. Our first intention in this paper is to underline the contrast between both uses, and then analyse the difficulties entailed by the merely "political" use of the contract method that Rawls defends in his latest works.
%K contractualismo
%K liberalismo
%K comunitarismo
%K contractualism
%K liberalism
%K communitarism
%K cultural democracy
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