Moral Cognitivism and Legal Positivism in Habermas’s and Kant's Philosophy of Law

Autores

  • Delamar José Volpato Dutra Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, S.C.
  • Nythamar de Oliveira Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUCRS)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1677-2954.2017v16n3p533

Resumo

The hypothesis of this paper is that legal positivism depends on the non plausibility of strong moral cognitivism because of the non necessary connection thesis between law and morality that legal positivism is supposed to acknowledge. The paper concludes that only when based on strong moral cognitivism is it consistent to sustain the typical non-positivistic thesis of the necessary connection between law and morality. Habermas’s Philosophy of law is confronted with both positions.

 

 

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Publicado

2017-12-01