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Vol. 56 No. 5 (2007)
https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2007.308
Legge morale e legge civile a difesa dell'uomo in Giovanni Paolo II
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The author analysis the question of the relation between law and ethics in Evangelium Vitae in the perspective of the philosophy of law. In particular, it focuses on the theories that speak about neutrality of law (separating law from moral pluralism), such as libertarian-liberalism which identifies law with individual autonomy and procedural democracy which identifies law with opinions of majority. John Paul II criticizes postmodern patterns of law, reaffirming on philosophical and theological level the doctrine of natural law (against legal positivism) which recognises in human being the inviolable rights and intrinsic dignity. In this perspective, there is a moral duty on the part of citizen to criticize and not to obey to unjust laws and on the part of jurist and politician to work for an abolition, reform and reformulation of law, to adequate positive law to the intrinsic instances of human nature.
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Legge morale e legge civile a difesa dell’uomo in Giovanni Paolo II. (2007). Medicina E Morale, 56(5). https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2007.308
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