Derechos y deberes de indemnidad
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This paper tries to show that the most influential philosophical conceptions of tort law, that see tort law as a practice of corrective justice, have three shortcomings. First, they are unable to perfectly explain the correlativity of the parties' rights and duties. Second, they leave without explanation the contribution of tort law in the very conformation of primary rights and duties, in contrast to compensatory rights and duties which are secondary, for they arise once the former are infringed. Finally, they have a hard time in reconstructing strict liability as something different form the fault principle. I argue, on the other hand, that tort law is a complex practice that satisfies corrective and distributive functions. In its distributive aspect, tort law settles the fair terms of interaction between private parties by recognizing a set of indemnity rights and duties, that is, rights not to suffer certain types of harms, and duties no to cause them. These rights and duties are part of what awls called primary goods, useful for whatever the persons' plan of life is. Once the central elements of this theory are presented, I show how the problems mentioned above can be surmounted