Mi SciELO
Revista Fuerzas Armadas y Sociedad
versión impresa ISSN 0717-1498
Resumen
PENA GONZALEZ, Carlos. Security and rights: incompatible goods?.Traducido porSin-Yin Antonela Andreani Chia. Rev. fuerzas armadas soc. [online]. 2006, vol.1Selected edition, pp. 0-0. ISSN 0717-1498.
This article suggests that in the origins of modern state, there is a paradox: the state concentrates the use of violence and, in this way, it is the main source of violence; but at the same time, attempts to delete it. To solve this paradox is the main challenge of the democratic state. If modern state provides security without rights, it would lose legitimacy, its moral advantage. At international level, the situation is similar. However, the European constitution shows that Kants dream - a cosmopolitan republic- is possible.
Palabras clave : security; political theory; Kant; human rights.