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- Combines current and crucial political-ethical questions with concrete answers
- Analyses both classical and modern political virtues
- Examines political, juridical and ethical (philosophical) matters in dialogue and together with their practical political consequences
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Law (BRIEFSLAW)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Is the dream of EU endangered? This book reviews classic and modern values and virtues, and uses them in order to rethink Europe’s present politics and its future. The idea of the Republic was born with the political ethics of ancient Greece. The current international crisis obliges Europe to face the mirror of truth: What has become of the European Idea and how fares the European Constitution?
It has been a long road from the Greek Politeia to the present lack of values and financial monomania in Europe, who seems to have lost any harmony between the spirit, the soul and the body of her Constitution: the will and values of the people (material constitution), the text of the Lisbon Treaty (formal constitution) and its current political interpretation and action (real constitution), making Europe a two-tier or three-tier club, far from the dream of the founding fathers.
Without republican values and virtues, and failing to uphold the European social model, the European Union would devolve into moral, social and democratic bankruptcy.Authors and Affiliations
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School of Law, University Anhembi Morumbi (Laureate International Universities), São Paulo, Brazil and Faculty of Law, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Paulo Ferreira da Cunha
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Political Ethics and European Constitution
Authors: Paulo Ferreira da Cunha
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Law
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45600-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-45599-9Published: 11 June 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-45600-2Published: 01 June 2015
Series ISSN: 2192-855X
Series E-ISSN: 2192-8568
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 81
Topics: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Philosophy of Law, European Law