This article is meant to reflect on the idea of “implicit law” as it was interpreted by Lon L. Fuller and Robert Alexy. For both authors law should be defined through an essential reference to implicit elements inherent in its very nature. Whereas Fuller retrieves in the implicit moral elements of the law some “neutral” and “procedural” criteria, Alexy, differently, interprets them as material conditions of justice which impose on law a specific content. In the following pages I want to show the reasons for which it is quite easy to accept the idea of implicit law proposed by Fuller, but it is certainly more difficult to accept the much more lumbering and demanding interpretation offered by Alexy.
In questo articolo s’intende riflettere sull’idea di “diritto implicito” per come è stata interpretata da Lon L. Fuller e Robert Alexy. Per entrambi gli autori, il diritto deve essere definito facendo necessariamente riferimento ad elementi impliciti inerenti alla sua stessa natura. Ma se Fuller interpreta gli elementi morali impliciti del diritto come criteri “neutrali” e “procedurali”, Alexy, invece, li interpreta come delle condizioni materiali di giustizia che impongono al diritto un determinato contenuto. Nelle pagine che seguono si vogliono manifestare le ragioni per cui se è abbastanza agevole accettare l’idea di diritto implicito proposta da Fuller, risulta certamente più difficile condividere la ben più ingombrante ed impegnativa interpretazione offerta da Alexy.
L'idea di diritto implicito: un ipotetico dibattito tra Lon L. Fuller e Robert Alexy
Porciello A
2017-01-01
Abstract
This article is meant to reflect on the idea of “implicit law” as it was interpreted by Lon L. Fuller and Robert Alexy. For both authors law should be defined through an essential reference to implicit elements inherent in its very nature. Whereas Fuller retrieves in the implicit moral elements of the law some “neutral” and “procedural” criteria, Alexy, differently, interprets them as material conditions of justice which impose on law a specific content. In the following pages I want to show the reasons for which it is quite easy to accept the idea of implicit law proposed by Fuller, but it is certainly more difficult to accept the much more lumbering and demanding interpretation offered by Alexy.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.