Rule of Law - Ribas, Armando P.

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Résumé :
There is a great confusion in the world and even more in that part of the world that considers itself as representing the Western civilization. This confusion arises in two realms: the semantics and the conceptual. The first of these confusions is the result of ignoring the ethical and the political philosophy antithesis between the Anglo-American philosophy and the Franco-German one. As Balint Vazsonyi once wrote, they are as different as day and night. At the same time, that philosophical confusion to which Dr Ribas refers as the syncretism of Western philosophy, is the pretentious nirvana of democracy in the West. Conceptually, democracy may be divided in two antithetical systems: the rule of law and the majority rule. Majority rule is the opposite of the protection of individual rights: to life, liberty, property and the pursuance of happiness. In this book Dr Armando P. Ribas exposes the fact that the apparent rights of the majorities are no more than the absolute power of governments in the name of the people, that constitutes the new deity. This is in Aristotelian terms demagoguery, and the reason why democracy fails in Latin America, as it happened in Europe where Hitler and Mussolini represented majority rule as the most common excuse: reason of the state.

Biographie:
(1932-2020) Born in Cuba in 1932. After graduating in Law from the University of Santo Tom?s de Villanueva, in 1960 he obtained a Master's degree in Comparative Law from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
That year he traveled to Argentina, where he worked at the Shell oil company and -between 1967 and 1972- he was FIEL's Chief Economist.
From 1972 to 1976 he worked as an economist at the International Monetary Fund, in Washington, and on his return to Argentina he was an advisor to the Minister of Economy and the Ministry of Agriculture.
Between 1983 and 1990 he acted in politics, and was a National Deputy for the UCeDe of Capital Federal.
Business consultant and since 1978 professor of Political Philosophy at ESEADE
He collaborated with various journalistic media, including La Prensa and El Cronista Comercial, from Buenos Aires; El Pais, from Montevideo, and El Nuevo Herald, from Miami.