Human nature, historical change, and the exercise of power in the Federalist Papers
The purpose of the meeting is to analyze the relationship that exists between the views on human nature, historical change, and the exercise of power, respectively, in the Federalist papers, preferably highlighting those articles where this relationship is most ostensibly noticed. An analysis will be performed on how the authors dispense with the appeal to virtue in order to sustain a free government, to what extent they trust a specific institutional design, and to what degree their perspective is also supported by a clear observation of the social, political and economic conditions of the modernity.
Enrique Aguilar is Doctor in Political Sciences from the Catholic University of Argentina. He was director of the Institute of Political Sciences and International Relations and later dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the UCA. He is currently director of the Doctorate in Political Sciences at the same university. He is Professor of political theory at UCA, UCEMA, FLACSO/Argentina and other universities, both at graduate and undergraduate level. He is author of several publications on topics of this specialty, and frequent collaborator of digital media, He is member of the editorial board of Criterio and is also a member of the committees of several national and foreign scientific journals. He is a fellow of the Friedman Hayek Center at UCEMA, and also a member of the following organizations: Fundación Ortega y Gasset Argentina, Fundación Libertad y Progreso, Instituto Acton y Fundación David Hume.