How Law Replaced Morals

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How Law Replaced Morals

A Kantian Contribution

Campos Galuppo, Marcelo

From the journal ARSP Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, Volume 102, June 2016, issue 2

Published by Franz Steiner Verlag

article, 10811 Words
Original language: English
ARSP 2016, pp 202-221
https://doi.org/10.25162/arsp-2016-0010

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Although most scholars try to conceive Immanuel Kant’s Theory of Law and his Moral Theory as belonging to a System, there is a difficulty that challenges most of the interpreters: If there is a moral content that informs how positive Law should be enacted, and hence if Morals could evaluate Law, why does Kant say that civil disobedience and resistance to Law cannot rationally be allowed? This apparent incongruence acquires another significance when one considers the functional and structural differences that Kant establishes between Law and Morals. If we take them seriously into account, we will realize that Kant operates a radical separation between Morals and Law, which can no longer derive its content from Morals, but instead looks for an increasingly more political foundation in Modernity.

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Marcelo Campos Galuppo

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Civil Disobedience | Law and Morals | Rule of Law | Immanuel Kant | Legal Positivism

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