Eutanasia, estado constitucional y democracia: la validez de los argumentos religiosos en las decisiones de la Corte Constitucional Colombiana a la luz de la propuesta de Habermas sobre el rol de la religión en la esfera pública

This product of a research turns around the question related to the position of Colombian Constitutional Court in relation to religious arguments to support and express its decisions in some controversial cases. In order to analyze such a problem, it has been proposed to tackle a systematic and crit...

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Main Authors: Aguirre Román, Javier Orlando, Silva Rojas, Alonso, Pabón Mantilla, Ana Patricia
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=5197379
Source:Opinión Jurídica: Publicación de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Medellín, ISSN 1692-2530, Vol. 14, Nº. 27, 2015
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Summary: This product of a research turns around the question related to the position of Colombian Constitutional Court in relation to religious arguments to support and express its decisions in some controversial cases. In order to analyze such a problem, it has been proposed to tackle a systematic and critical interpretation of a concrete aspect of Jürgen Habermas’ philosophy, that is to say, his proposal about the role of religion in public affairs. The reflection in this first product focuses in the description of the proposed arguments analysis in the constitutional within the Constitutional Court, resulting in Sentence C-239, 1997, which decided on the demand against article 326, Decree 100, 1980- Criminal Code at that time -, referring to criminal type “homicide for pity” (or euthanasia) at the light of theproposed theoretical referent.