RphZ Rechtsphilosophie

Affective moralisation is increasingly being used to serve political goals. Since affectively charged moral judgements have the structure of opinion, changes in the free speech environment brought about by the digital cheap speech era must be...

Evil morality is characterized by features that can be understood as variations of hypocrisy. It appears increasingly in societies in which moral agreements have become fragile and potentials for political transformation are no longer in sight.

This paper tries to analyse in detail the positions Kelsen defended in different works about the role of logic in law. It defends two new theses. (i) Contrary to the majority view, it is argued that there is a continuity of the role logic plays in...

The article reconstructs the dysfunctionality of the moral debate and the discourse on identity politics within the political left. It focuses on the problems of criticism as well as on the behavior of the addressed left audience and, within this...

Within the framework of a critical appraisal of Alexander Somek’s Moral als Bosheit, a kind of intersectional struggle that fulfils the criteria of his concept of social justice is to be outlined with the help of critical theory, which aligns with...

Since his 1920s writings, Kelsen called for a permanent court of compulsory jurisdiction capable of resolving international conflicts. It should also be capable of establishing the individual responsibility of the violators of international law and...

Nomodynamic theories use to describe legal systems as simple systems of legal sources and therefore are usually associated to free and creative character of their activity. It’s paradigmatical example of this Kelsen’s theory, according which all...