From human rights to person rights : legal reflections on posthumanism and human enhancement

In the intersection between law, science and technology lies the debate on the overcoming of the boundaries of the biological structure of the human being and its implications on the idea of human rights, on the concept of person and on the conception of equality – being the latter a fundamental tenet of a democracy. Posthumanism assumes a biological inadequacy of the human body regarding the quantity, complexity and quality of information which it can muster. The same occurs with the needs of accuracy, speed or strength demanded by the contemporary environment. Under such perspective, the body is considered to be an inefficient structure, with a short lifespan, easy to break and hard to fix. The body, always seen as the locus for the definition of human, emerges as the object of a commodification process that seeks to exonerate men from their burden - by declination towards a virtual existence, totally free and rational - or to enhance them with bionic devices or drugs. This issue has already been the subject of attention by many scholars like Savulescu, Rodotà, Broston, Fukuyama and even Habermas. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to seek, by criticism and revision of the positions on the foreseen problems of this process, an adequate theoretical approach on issues like the concept of person and its connection with the idea of human rights in order to promote the fundamental statement that all men are equal without disregard to the values of diversity and personal identity

Partial Classification of Lorenz Knots: Syllable Permutations of Torus Knots Words

We define families of aperiodic words associated to Lorenz knots that arise naturally as syllable permutations of symbolic words corresponding to torus knots. An algorithm to construct symbolic words of satellite Lorenz knots is defined. We prove, subject to the validity of a previous conjecture, that Lorenz knots coded by some of these families of words are hyperbolic, by showing that they are neither satellites nor torus knots and making use of Thurston's theorem. Infinite families of hyperbolic Lorenz knots are generated in this way, to our knowledge, for the first time. The techniques used can be generalized to study other families of Lorenz knots

Notas sobre las baronías de Martorell y Molins de Reí (1398 - 1581)

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Las mujeres de Juan Pacheco y su parentela

Este trabajo tiene por objeto el estudio de la parentela de Juan Pacheco, privado de Enrique IV y marqués de Villena: sus tres matrimonios, sus hijos legítimos y bastardos así como otros aspectos de su personalidad.Este trabajo tiene por objeto el estudio de la parentela de Juan Pacheco, privado de Enrique IV y marqués de Villena: sus tres matrimonios, sus hijos legítimos y bastardos así como otros aspectos de su personalidad.: This article studies the family of Juan Pacheco, Marquis of Villena and minister of King Enrique IV; his three marriages; his legitimate and illegitimate children, in addition to other aspects of his personality