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Throughout its evolution, every theory usually faces certain challenges that prove its vitality. The discourse of rights, as a theoretical conception aimed at its explanation and foundation, is not exempt from the permanent task aimed at responding to these challenges. This essay analyzes the risks that are considered most decisive and pressing for the discourse of rights. To this end, three current challenges to the theory of rights are studied and three responses to them are suggested. Eleaticism, particularism and posthumanism are considered the main challenges facing reflection on rights today. The response to these attitudes is constituted by historicism, universalism and humanism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Professor Tommaso Greco's book La legge della fiducia stands out for the originality and timeliness of its approach, since it represents a change of direction in studies on the meaning of legislation at the present time. Faced with the tendency, predominant in recent years, to allude to the crisis of the law, Professor Greco defends trust in the law, as long as it is a law worthy of trust. There are three reasons that make the theoretical-legal proposal that Tommaso Greco exposes us in his book worthy of intellectual trust. The first refers to the past. It deals with the vexata quaestio of whether the law should be based on anthropological optimism or pessimism. The second is part of the present due to its suitability to strengthen the guarantee of two basic values that sustain democratic societies: civic education and legal certainty. The third has a vocation for the future, since it concerns the role of the law in the technological society and the projections of Artificial Intelligence in legislative production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to show the opposition between the Humanist cultural tradition and the main theses currently defended by Posthumanism. The structure of the paper is built upon the corresponding answers provided by both trends to the three main philosophical questions: How do we know reality? What are the world and life, and how are they explained? What is the best way to live one’s life? Gnoseology (or theory of knowledge), Ontology, and Deontology or Ethics have respectively tried to provide answers for such questions. Certain ambiguities of the Posthumanist dehumanizing project are also addressed. The paper concludes with an exposition of the arguments that justify the continuity of Humanist values, principles, and rights, updated according to the demands of our time. This paper aims to show the opposition between the Humanist cultural tradition and the main theses currently defended by Posthumanism. The structure of the paper is built upon the corresponding answers provided by both trends to the three main philosophical questions: How do we know reality? What are the world and life, and how are they explained? What is the best way to live one’s life? Gnoseology (or theory of knowledge), Ontology, and Deontology or Ethics have respectively tried to provide answers for such questions. Certain ambiguities of the Posthumanist dehumanizing project are also addressed. The paper concludes with an exposition of the arguments that justify the continuity of Humanist values, principles, and rights, updated according to the demands of our time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the influences of postmodernity and globalization in the deconstruction of fundamental notions of law. Following, it examines the crisis of political participation in legislative processes, focusing on the concept of teledemocracy. It ends by discussing the foundations of a possible global constitutionalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]