The ideology of neutrality: an approach of about to normative positivism and its limits in front of social democracy.

Authors

  • João Luiz Martins Esteves Universidade Estadual de Londrina - UEL.
  • Luiz Henrique Urquhart Cademartori Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/2178-8189.2013v17n2p193

Keywords:

Law, Ideology, Neutrality, Positivism

Abstract

This paper discusses its object approaching the existence of criticism that makes to normative legal positivism as to its lack of commitments to values arising from the current social-liberal democracies, and also the very posture of indifference displayed by the Pure Theory of Law as the ideological content of the law and legal systems. This all takes place from a position of supposed neutrality of Legal Positivism. Considered this, the paper investigates what is the ideological commitment of positivism normative and its ability to respond adequately to the criticisms that are made.

Author Biographies

João Luiz Martins Esteves, Universidade Estadual de Londrina - UEL.

Mestre em Direito do Estado pela Universidade Gama Filho – UGF/RJ; Doutorando pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina – UFSC; Professor na graduação e pós-graduação da Universidade Estadual de Londrina – UEL.

Luiz Henrique Urquhart Cademartori, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC.

Mestre em Instituições Jurídico-políticas e Doutor em Direito do Estado pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC; Pós-doutor em Filosofia do Direito pela Universidade de Granada – Espanha; Professor no programa de Mestrado e Doutorado em Direito pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina – UFSC.

Published

2013-12-04

How to Cite

Esteves, J. L. M., & Cademartori, L. H. U. (2013). The ideology of neutrality: an approach of about to normative positivism and its limits in front of social democracy. Scientia Iuris, 17(2), 193–210. https://doi.org/10.5433/2178-8189.2013v17n2p193

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