Methodological Questions Related to the Juridical Positivism: “Our Concept of Law”

Abstract

This article intends to present an introductory outlook of the methodological and conceptual commitments of Joseph Raz` law theory, with the intention of approaching the particularities of a relationship between law and moral from the perspective of the author. Raz is a representative of the legal positivism as law theory and, moreover, without affecting the positivist character of his theory, he understands that there is no legal point of view apart from the moral point of view. One of the purposes of his theory is to provide an explanation for the nature of the Gianella BardazanoÄ Cuestiones metodológicas relativas al positivismo jurídico: “nuestro concepto de derecho” Revista de la Facultad de Derecho, (45), 2018, e20184513 DOI:10.22187/rfd2018n45a13 ISSN 0797-8316 / eISSN 2301-0665 1 de 30 Ä Prof. Agr. Filosofía del Derecho, Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de la República, Uruguay. Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7477-1305 * gbardazano@gmail.com Doctrina Methodological questions related to the juridical positivism: “our concept of law” Questões metodológicas relativas ao positivismo jurídico: “nosso conceito de direito” Gianella Bardazano Cuestiones metodológicas relativas al positivismo jurídico... type of social institution designated by our concept of law.