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- The Problem of Recognition of Human Rights: Does Explicative-Existential Justification Really Work?
This paper analyses Robert Alexy’s explicative-existential justification of human rights. The author identifies several problems that are associated with it. Read more
- Philosophical Analysis of Two Types of Legal Responsibility
The paper presents some preliminary results of a philosophical analysis of the concept of legal responsibility, including its nature and types. It draws upon Anglo-American metaethical discussions of moral responsibility, which have abounded in philosophy after Peter F. Read more
- Ethics of a Public Administration Official in Poland: Prospects for the Development of Professional Deontology
The development of modern civilization associated with the digital revolution poses entirely new challenges in terms of ethics for public administration. Read more
- Threshold of Justification of Emergency Regulations: On Coherentism Requirement for the Justification of Measures Adopted in the Czech Republic during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The article deals with justification of generally binding legal acts as part of a state governed by the rule of law. The “state of exception” caused by the COVID-19 pandemic adds a new dimension to the issue of justification. Read more
- A Theory of Argumentation: The Case of Ethical, Political, and Utopian Thinking
A relevant problem in political philosophy and political theory is the distinction between political and utopian arguments. The boundary between these two types of argumentation may be blurred, which leads us to the point when we often deal with contaminations of both ways of thinking in individual positions. Read more
- Against Dignity: An Argument for a Non-Metaphysical Foundation of Animal Law
Animal protection as an emerging field of legislation needs to be constitutionalized as well as comprehensively expounded by legal scholars. As it is a growing body of regulation and accompanying legal theories, it needs to develop a solid conceptual and axiological framework, in particular a set of basic values and principles on which detailed rules are to be founded. Read more
- Legal Realism and Functional Kinds: Michael Moore’s Metaphysically Reductionist Naturalism
Michael Moore defends an account of scientific, mental, moral, and legal properties, according to which there are not only natural kinds, but also moral and functional kinds; and he maintains, more specifically that: 1) distinctively legal phenomena, such as legal rights, precedent, malice, etc. Read more
- Norms and Novelty: Reflections on Legal Knowledge, Norms and Evolutionary Systems
The paper has three sub-topics: legal knowledge, legal norms, and evolutionary systems. The three are interconnected. Read more
- Professor Ryszard Sarkowicz (1952–2021)