About the dual nature of law by Robert Alexy

• Autor: Cruz Acuña, Edgar
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2012
• Institución: Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.revistas.unife.edu.pe:article/232
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.unife.edu.pe/index.php/phainomenon/article/view/232
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Law; morality; positivism; nature; justice; moral; moral correctness; coercion; normativity; Derecho; positivismo; naturaleza; justicia; corrección moral; coerción; normatividad

The central argument of Robert Alexy’s thesis is developed, concerning the dual nature of Law that includes a real or factual dimension, and another, ideal or critical. This thesis is inconsistent with both the exclusive legal positivism and the inclusive legal positivism, and with some thesis of non-positivism in its extreme version. The dual nature of law expresses and justifies by Gustav Radbruch´s formula which states that the “extreme injustice is not Law” on the one hand, andby the argument of moral correctness on the other. As a result of this analysis, the definition of the Law is something that depends on social facts in what the Law should be.