Search results for "Natural law"
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Sobre la obsolescencia del positivismo jurídico (Una aproximación desde la historia del pensamiento)
2011
Una de las cuestiones más debatidas en la filosofía del Derecho de los últimos años es la de la obsolescencia del positivismo jurídico: ¿sigue siendo el iuspositivismo una corriente de pensamiento vigente? ¿Hemos trascendido sus fundamentos, entrando así en una nueva era? ¿O bien estamos asistiendo a un momento de quiebra de sus bases, es decir, a caballo entre dos etapas? El objetivo de esta comunicación es encarar esta pregunta desde una aproximación no muy transitada para afrontar este problema en la discusión contemporánea: la historia del pensamiento. Concretamente, veremos cómo la caracterización canónica del positivismo no sirve para dar cuenta de un largo elenco de teorías positivis…
Smithian Sentimentalism Anticipated: Pufendorf on the Desire for Esteem and Moral Conduct
2018
In this paper, we argue that Samuel Pufendorf's works on natural law contain a sentimentalist theory of morality that is Smithian in its moral psychology. Pufendorf's account of how ordinary people make moral judgements and come to act sociably is surprisingly similar to Smith's. Both thinkers maintain that the human desire for esteem, manifested by resentment and gratitude, informs people of the content of central moral norms and can motivate them to act accordingly. Finally, we suggest that given Pufendorf's theory of socially imposed moral entities, he has all the resources for a sentimentalist theory of morality.
Do we need earth jurisprudence? Looking for change in new old friends
2020
The article introduces the reader to the theory of Earth Jurisprudence through an analysis of the writings of Thomas Berry, Cormac Cullinan and Peter Burdon. After looking at the main revisions that the scholars of Earth Jurisprudence propose to the theory of law, the article recognizes the fact that they all move in the direction of natural law theories and questions the opportunity to take this path in order to change the relationship between human law and the environment.
FILOZOFIA PRAWA W ŻYCIU I NAUCZANIU ULPIANA
2017
The Philosophy of Law in Ulpian’s Life and TeachingSummaryThe purpose of this article, is to show, taking into account Ulpian’s life and teaching, that the Roman jurisprudence was interwoven with some elements of philosophy. The first part of the article illustrates the influence of Ulpian’s life history on his philosophical and legislative views, whereas the second part presents the latter.His knowledge of law, the posts which he occupied, and numerous works prove that Ulpian was preoccupied with studying „law through its first causes”. He asked about the essence of the law, about what the natural law is, and what justice is. He described the juridical reality using the language of law and…
Per una filosofia del diritto positivo alternativa al giuspositivismo
2022
The article discusses Francesco Viola’s new book, considered as a philosophy of positive law alternative to legal positivism. The starting point is the classification of his approach as characterized by the thesis of an interpretive connection of law and morals, evident in his itinerary through the three revivals of Natural law in the last century. This kind of connection – possibly shared both by many Natural theories and positivistic positions – leads coherently to the thesis of the conceptual connection, in which justice plays an important role in the con- cept of law. Finally, it is proposed a comment on his important distinction of epistemological, ontological and ideal approaches to t…
The Challenges and Opportunities of Human Technology
2005
Technology is for human use. It is designed to satisfy some human needs and to aid people in reaching their goals. Technology, therefore, is a part of human activities and, for this reason alone, it should always be considered within the context of human life, the human experience. This basic credo forms the foundation for the concept of human technology. Instead of seeing technology as a construction following the laws of nature, the challenge of human technology is to explore and understand how humanist and social research can contribute to the conceptualization and implementation of technology.
El formalismo interpretativo y el iusnaturalismo actual: la posición de John Finnis | The Interpretive Formalism and the Current Iusnaturalism: The P…
2014
Resumen: Hoy podemos ver un resurgimiento de las tendencias formalistas en la interpretación de reglas jurídicas. Este resurgimiento aparece en los campos tanto del Positivismo jurídico como del Iusnaturalismo. La finalidad de estos movimientos es ética y política: la defensa del imperio de la ley. Un ejemplo de esta actitud formalista es la teoría de John Finnis. Pero el formalismo no resuelve todos los problemas. Incluso desde el punto de vista de una teoría de la decisión judicial no decisionista, la interpretación jurídica necesita la ayuda de herramientas hermenéuticas no formales para completar su función. Abstract: Today, we can see a revival of formalist tendencies in the interpre…
Neuroscienze e diritto naturale
2014
In the first three sections of this paper, the author examines the ambiguous usage of legal and moral terminology in the field of neurosciences. The fourth section is devoted to the analysis of the natural law tradition: obviously in this context naturalistic tendencies have been opposed and isolated by the forbiddance derived from the naturalistic fallacy argument. The question is whether neurosciences can attribute a new (by any chance different and debatable) role to the “nature” in law and morals.
Il c.d. neocostituzionalismo e la conoscenza del diritto
2016
Da una prospettiva giusfilosofica, le tesi più interessanti del c.d. neocostituzionalismo sono quelle che sfidano il positivismo giuridico metodologico. Come approach al diritto, il positivismo giuridico presuppone la possibilità di distinguere tra il diritto qual è ed il diritto quale dovrebbe essere, tra diritto ideale e diritto reale, e, sulla base di tale distinzione, individua l’oggetto della scienza giuridica nel diritto positivo. L’attacco del neocostituzionalismo a questo modo di intendere la conoscenza del diritto ruota intorno a tre argomenti: a) l’argomento della pretesa di correttezza b) l’argomento legato alla impossibilità di distinguere nettamente l’osservatore dal partecipan…
Hugo Grotius – Individual Rights as the Core of Natural Law
2014
The Dutch humanist Hugo Grotius’ status as an important forerunner of the Enlightenment is well recognized, bolstered by his famous etiamsi daremus-dictum in the Prolegomena of De iure belli ac pacis. Less well known is that Grotius was the first central Protestant thinker to redefine the concept of ius, so that it was understood as individual or subjective rights. His understanding of ius as a personal moral quality, which he subsequently delimits as the expletive justice or perfect right to one’s own (suum), was given a pivotal role in his system of natural law. These concepts of ius and suum, which Grotius differentiates from other rationally derived moral principles, inspired John Locke…