La familia en el contexto contemporáneo

Abstract

Social transformations have had a relevant impact on the field of current private law. The traditionally affirmed conception of the category of person has presented a rich variation according to the growing perspectives of inclusion and perception of social actors. However, these mutations are not new if we take into account that, even before the emergence of the Roman city-state, the position of human beings and their faculties in the exercise of private and public life offered incipient concepts that led to profound transformations. In this order, the revision of some of the codifications of the Babylonian regime, the comments and observations of Greek philosophers, and the characteristic abstractions of the Roman tradition, offer elements that allow us to approach the role of the human being, seen from its simple entity or as a political-legal category. From these elements emerge the concepts of citizenship and the person, as a subject of rights.