Persona humana y dignidad. Una perspectiva ético-discursiva

Abstract

The current article is based on communicative-pragmatic assumptions and attempts to state more precisely a discourseethical concept of human person which permits to overcome some limitations of traditional comprehensions. It also intends both to show the meaning of dignity assigned to a human person in a moral sense and what it consists in. After briefly presenting some traditional and modern concepts of human person we analyze Peter Singer’s idea of human person. Finally, we outline a discourse-ethical concept of human person in order to define precisely in which sense it is possible to speak about “dignity” within the framework of a discourse-ethical comprehension of “human person”.