%0 Journal Article %T Filosof¨ªa de la paz y la Dignidad Humana %A di Santo %A Luigi %J Fr¨®nesis %D 2009 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X the times in which we live, altered by infinite conflicts, indicate the outlines for a new area of debate about meaning, the reasons for the war-peace binomial and legal implications; in a few words, about the proximity of the phenomenon of peace to human rights. war is rupture and the legal order that it obtains assumes the political connotations of a regime legitimated through the consensus from which a government takes its life; the monopoly off force is activated in the forms of statehood. it would seem indispensable to put into action the possible beginning of a route of liberation for peace, understood as a condition of philosophical possibility that is filled with meaning in overcoming the empty unreality of conflict; in making a vital and at the same time, programmatic understanding; in delineating cultural foundations for a philosophy of meaningful creativity. the method used is documentary. conclusions are that peace as a beginning is developed as an end and not as a means, as aristotle has already indicated in politics. %K peace %K dignity %K war %K human rights %K politics. %U http://www.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1315-62682009000200004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en