Resumen de Some thoughts about human dignity
Among my cherished memories of Benedita Mac Crorie is a discussion between us one evening in Heidelberg some twenty years ago. At the time, Benedita was working on her doctoral thesis1. That evening, she set out to explain to me her approach to the concept of the waiver of fundamental rights and its limits, particularly related to human dignity. Moving effortlessly between German dogmatic thought and a Socratic method of questioning my assumptions Benedita gave me a clase magistral on fundamental rights. We met again several times over the years and I had the privilege of meet-ing her family and her students and calling her my friend. But it was this discussion that showed me what academia can be at the best of times: a place for the exchange of ideas, to strive together to better understand the world and maybe even to improve it a little.
