The Concept of Person in the Argentinean Legal System. Ideas from Three Historical Stages

LELL, HELGA MARÍA

Workshop; IVR Japan International Workshop (IVRJW 2020); 2020

International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy-Japan

This paper analyses the legal concept of person in Argentinean legal system. The main questions are what does to be a person represents in legal field and which are the images associated to this concept when it comes to recognize certain rights and duties. The paper is structured in three parts: the first one presents the etymology and the metaphor of ?person?, the second one focuses on three stages of the concept of person in Argentinean constitutional history and the third one introduces some challenges to the concept. There is a contraposition between the mere legal concept (in a positivist way) and a wider legal consideration that involves a moral inspiration.Aclaración: el evento se llevó a cabo de forma virtual.