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Ribas, Armando P. |
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224 Pages - In English ISBN: 978-1-934768-51-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2012933039 Printed copy: U$ 35.25.- add to cart Evaluation copy: U$ 22.91.- add to cart Online access: U$ 9.99.- add to cart 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. |
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Armando Paulino Ribas nació en Cuba en 1932.
Luego de graduarse en Derecho en la Universi dad de Santo Tomás de Villanueva, en 1960 obtuvo un Master en Derecho Comparado en la Southern Methodist University en Dallas, Texas. Ese año viajó a la Argentina, donde trabajó en la compañía petrolera Shell y –entre 1967 y 1972– fue Economista Jefe de FIEL. De 1972 a 1976 se desempeñó como economista en el Fondo Monetario Internacional, en Washington, y a su regreso a la Argentina fue asesor del Ministro de Economía y de la Secretaría de Agricultura. Entre 1983 y 1990 actuó en política, y fue Diputado Nacional por la UCeDe de Capital Federal. Actualmente es consultor de empresas y desde 1978 profesor de Filosofía Política en el ESEADE. Colabora con diversos medios periodísticos, entre ellos La Prensa y El Cronista Comercial, de Buenos Aires; El Pais, de Montevideo, y El Nuevo Herald, de Miami. Ver más libros. Professional Experience
Wrote for the following newspapers: La Nación, La Prensa and El Cronista (Buenos Aires); El País (Montevideo); El Nuevo Herald (Miami). Currently writes for La Prensa (Buenos Aires) and El Diariolasamericas (Miami) Education
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