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Article Robert Alexy’s Philosophy of Law as Institutionalization of Practical Reason
Authors
Maksymov S.
Name of magazine Scientific journal «Philosophy of Law and General Theory of Law» (Ukrainian language)
Issue 1-2 / 2015
Pages 436 - 445
Annotation

The article analyzes the main provisions of the Robert Alexy’s philosophy

of law as an integrated system, which at the same time remains open for further

expansion of meanings. It demonstrates how the main motive of the Alexy’s philosophy

of law — «the institutionalization of reason» as a combination of real and ideal dimensions

of law in the institutions of liberal democracy — in series takes place in the three

components of his philosophical-legal system: the theory of legal argumentation, the

theory of constitutional rights and non-positivistic concept of law.

Keywords institutionalization of reason, practical reason, non-positivism, discourse philosophy, legal argumentation, constitutional rights, validity of law.
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