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

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 cognit...

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Main Authors: Delamar José Volpato Dutra, Nythamar de Oliveira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2017-12-01
Series:Ethic@: an International Journal for Moral Philosophy
Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ethic/article/view/54870
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