Autonomía y derechos sociales. Una revisión del orden de los principios en la teoría de Carlos Nino

Abstract

This paper defends a justification of social rights based on the principle of autonomy and in a certain reading of Carlos Nino’s moral theory. I believe it makes sense of some of the canonical discussions on social rights (positive vs. negative, judicially enforceable or not, cheap vs. expensive, majoritarian vs. counter majoritarian, etc.) as well as of the metaphors in use to classify rights in general such as first, second or third generations or the division in centuries).