¿Es el Derecho una profesión inmoral? Un entremés para los cultores de la ética y de la deontología jurídica
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Salas, Minor E.Keywords
Legal educationCódigos deontológicos
Moral, ética y deontología jurídica
Inmoralidad intrínseca
Filosofía del Derecho
Enseñanza del Derecho
Intrinsic immorality
Moral, legal ethics and deontology
Moral de imperativos/moral de circunstancias
Filosofía del Derecho
Legal theory and philosophy
Codes of ethics
Morals based on imperatives/morals based on circumstances
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Many of the advices of legal ethics and deontology leading to elaborate, in a very abstract manner, the profile of a good lawyer are basically naive, but above all useless. These advices are born of a double prejudice which is very common nowadays: a) first, that it is possible to teach morality to any professional person —in this case to the lawyer who has already graduated— for which purpose some codes of ethics meticulously written and some moral courses (taught at weekend time!) will suffice. b) Second, that it is possible to practice the legal profession according to strict moral criteria. In this essay, both beliefs are theoretically demystified to show that the daily practice of law requires, in view of its internal logic and dynamic, a certain magnitude of dishonesty and therefore of immorality. The amount of this will depend on the particular person considered. Finally, the article studies (not as a mere recipe, but as a heuristic suggestion) how to fight, so far as possible, this intrinsic immorality of the legal profession.Muchas de las recomendaciones de la deontología jurídica conducentes a elaborar, en términos bien abstractos, algún perfil del buen jurista son básicamente ingenuas, pero sobre todo inútiles. Ellas suelen partir de un doble prejuicio, muy arraigado en la actualidad: a) por un lado, de que es posible enseñar moral a cualquier profesional —en este caso, al jurista ya formado— para lo cual se suelen implementar simplemente unos códigos de ética e impartir unos cursos deontológicos (¡de fin de semana!) al respecto; y, b) por otro lado, de que la profesión legal se puede ejercer de conformidad con parámetros estrictamente morales. En este artículo se desarman teoréticamente ambas creencias y se muestra cómo el ejercicio práctico del Derecho requiere —por la misma dinámica implícita en la profesión— una cierta dosis de deshonestidad y con ello de inmoralidad. Cuánta sea esa dosis dependerá de las circunstancias personales de cada profesional considerado in concreto. Finalmente, el trabajo analiza (no a título de un recetario, sino de algunas pistas heurísticas) cómo combatir, hasta donde se puede, esta inmoralidad intrínseca de la actividad jurídica.
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2007Type
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0214-8876
SALAS, Minor E. “¿Es el Derecho una profesión inmoral? Un entremés para los cultores de la ética y de la deontología jurídica”. Doxa. N. 30 (2007). ISSN 0214-8876, pp. 581-600
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