Download This PaperDetermining the Content of the European Consensus Concept: the Hidden Role of Language
Panos Kapotas and Vassillis Tzevelekos (eds.), Building Consensus on European Consensus, Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp. 120-140
16 Pages Posted: 27 Jun 2019
Date Written: January 12, 2018
Abstract
The paper explores different roles that language may play in the identification of European consensus by both the ECtHR and the doctrine. It also explains why scholars’ attempts to define what European consensus means have inevitably failed given that they rely on an unfounded ‘Platonic’ assumption according to which all things that we commonly subsume under the same name must always have a common feature.
Keywords: Human Rights, European Consensus, Definition, Platonism, Language Games
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