Libertad, relacionalidad y naturaleza de la personaun diálogo desde Robert Spaemann con el construccionismo social

Résumé

Under the title “Freedom, relationality and nature of the human person. A dialogue between Robert Spaemann and social constructionism”, this work proposes an interdisciplinary dialogue between the German philosopher Robert Spaemann and social constructionism, on the nature and freedom of the human person. Our aim has been to address the challenges and contradictions posed by the modern dialectic between nature and freedom, as manifested in social constructionism, in relation to the person and the foundations of communal life. We have done so by proposing our own discussion of the issues addressed, based on the contributions of the German philosopher.The question of freedom and the nature of the human being within the framework of two paradigmatic authors of social constructionism in the second half of the 20th century — Peter Berger and Michel Foucault — constitutes the starting point of this research. While Berger's weak social constructionism reduces nature to a merely initial, but meaningless, biological substratum, foucaultian strong social constructionism voices a much more radical negation of nature, for it removes all its validity in the human sphere and turns it into a mere historical product. The consideration of freedom in the framework of the constructionist authors addressed is posed in emancipatory terms, either as a liberation from the roles constructed and assigned by society, or as a liberation from imposed forms of individuality...