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A. PEPERZAK, "Autoconoscenza dell'assoluto. Lineamenti della filosofia dello spirito hegeliana"Filosofia Oggi 12 (3/4): 573. 1989.
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426The Hierarchical Model and H. L. A. Hart's Concept of LawRevus 21 141-161. 2013.Law is traditionally related to the practice of command and hierarchy. It seems that a legal rule should immediately establish a relation between a superior and an inferior. This hierarchical and authoritharian view might however be challenged once the phenomenology of the rule is considered from the internal point of view, that is, from the stance of those that can be said to “use” rather than to “suffer” the rules themselves. A practice oriented approach could in this way open up a more libera…Read more
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41Institutionalism Old and NewRatio Juris 6 (2): 190-201. 1993.The author deals with the legal theoretical approach that has been labelled “legal institutionalism.” An old and a new version of this approach are singled out: The old one is identified with the theory defended by the Italian public lawyer Santi Romano in the first half of this century; the second one is seen in the recent work by Ota Weinberger and Neil MacCormick. After a short presentation of Romano's work, his ideas and the development proposed by MacCormick and Weinberger are compared. Sim…Read more
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26Democracy and Tensions. Representation, Majority Rule, Fundamental RightsRatio Juris 8 (3): 373-396. 1995.
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39On Two Distinct and Opposing Versions of Natural Law: "Exclusive" versus "Inclusive"Ratio Juris 19 (2): 197-216. 2006.This paper takes the dichotomy between “exclusive” and “inclusive” positivism and applies it by analogy to natural-law theories. With John Finnis, and with Beyleved and Brownsword, we have examples of “exclusive natural-law theory,” on which approach the law is valid only if its content satisfies a normative monological moral theory. The discourse theories of Alexy and Habermas are seen instead as “inclusive natural-law theories,” in which the positive law is a constitutive moment in that it ide…Read more
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46Global Citizenship? Political Rights under Imperial ConditionsRatio Juris 18 (2): 236-257. 2005.
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333Le modèle hiérarchique et le Concept de droit de HartRevus 21 117-139. 2013.Le droit est traditionnellement lié à la pratique du commandement et de la hiérarchie. Il semble qu’une règle juridique établisse une immédiate relation entre une norme supérieure et une norme inférieure. La conception hiérarchique et impérative peut néanmoins être remise en cause dès lors que la phénoménologie de la règle juridique est appréhendée d’un point de vue interne, celui de ceux que l’on peut considérer comme les « utilisateurs » de la règle plutôt que ceux qui la subissent. Une approc…Read more
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Theories of Legal Argumentation and Concepts of Law an ApproximationEuropean University Institute. 1998.
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Meaning, Actions, Value Judgements a Moderate Non-Cognitivist ApproachEuropean University Institute. 1998.
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27Legitimacy for a Supranational European Political Order—Derivative, Regulatory or Deliberative?Ratio Juris 15 (1): 63-83. 2002.This paper discusses some models purported to legitimise a European supranational legal order. In particular, the author focuses on an application of the so‐called regulatory model to the complex structure of the European Community and the European Union. First of all, he tackles the very concept of legitimacy, contrasting it with both efficacy and efficiency. Secondly, he summarises the most prominent positions in the long‐standing debate on the sources of legitimation for the European Communit…Read more
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1Frei sein Jenseits von negativer und positiver FreiheitArchiv für Rechts- Und Sozialphilosophie 92 (2): 164-194. 2006.
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25The Hierarchical Model and H. L. A. Hart’s Concept of LawArchiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 93 (1): 82-100. 2007.Law seems to be irremediadibly connected to the experience of coercion and to a structure of hierarchy. This is so because it has traditionally been defined as a set of authoritative prescriptions, usually commands backed by the menace of a sanction, an evil eventually applied through the use of overwhelming violence. Law has also been related to some kind of structure or system which is intrinsically hierarchical, both in the sense of the hierarchy of people whose conduct is addressed by the la…Read more
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17On the Legal Logic of Social Ontology: Short Remarks on Hans Lindahl’s Fault Lines of GlobalizationJurisprudence 7 (2): 384-391. 2016.
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4Linguaggio, norme, istituzioni: contributo a una teoria istituzionalistica del dirittoEuropean University Institute. 1995.
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22Law and Morality: A Modest AssessmentVienna Circle Institute Yearbook 2 113-129. 1994.There are few problems to which legal philosophers have devoted more attention than the relationship between morality and law, or, said in different terms, between the “good” and the “obligatory”. One might think that all that should and could be said about it has already been uttered or written. Nevertheless philosophy — and legal philosophy is no exception — is just this: rethinking old problems which are in fact always new,1 and for which no definitive solution is given — nor is possible, I w…Read more
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Diritto e potere nella tradizione marxista: un bilancioRivista Internazionale di Filosofia Del Diritto 76 (3): 387-416. 1999.
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Anarchismo e liberalismo: Individuo e ragione nel pensiero di William GodwinRivista Internazionale di Filosofia Del Diritto 79 (2): 209-230. 2002.
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Noncognitivismo e principio di tolleranza. Una discussione su etica, bioetica e metaeticaRivista Internazionale di Filosofia Del Diritto 65 (2): 301-322. 1988.
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Linguaggio Giuridico E Realtà Sociale Note Sulla Critica Realistica Del Concetto di Diritto SoggettivoEuropean University Institute. 1992.
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