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НОРМЕ И ДИЛЕМЕ О ПРАВНОМ ПОЗИТИВИЗМУ
NORMS AND DILEMMAS IN LEGAL POSITIVISM

Author(s): Suzana Medar
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Philosophy of Law
Published by: Правни факултет Универзитета у Нишу
Keywords: the positive science of law; positive jurisprudence; ethical neutralism; ethical relativism; normative legal positivism; anti-normative legal positivism; culturalistic legal positivism

Summary/Abstract: The term "legal positivism", understood in terms of general methodological requirements for the experiential and ethically neutral approach to law, envelops at least three basic theoretical concepts. Beside the normative concept, which is almost taken for granted, there are two other concepts of law that meet the requirements: the concept of law as a real social phenomenon, and the concept of law as a cultural phenomenon. In that respect, a productive classification implies grouping various positivistic concepts into a trichotomy: normative, anti- normative and culturalistic legal positivism.

  • Issue Year: XLV/2004
  • Issue No: 45
  • Page Range: 152-165
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Serbian