30 MAR
Seminário Permanente sobre o Estado e o Estudo do Direito - FD
"Realismo nordico e diritti umani"
Doutor Alessandro Serpe, Professor of the Faculdade de Direito of Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Comments: Juiz Conselheiro José de Sousa e Brito, Invited Professor of the Faculdade de Direito of Universidade Nova de Lisboa
This work is an in-depth study of the Norwegian legal-philosophical background with special concern to the practice of human rights. It delves into the meanders and the questions about the existence of a relationship between the tenets of non-cognitivism and emotivism in moral philosophy on the one hand and the strong promotion of human rights in the Norwegian legal culture on the other.
The author re-constructs the origins of the Danish and Norwegian legal philosophy. The work attempts a detailed comparison between the Danish-Norwegian Nordic Realism (Den Nordiske Realism) whose origins are traced back to the first part of 19th century (with Anders Sandøe Ørsted
and Anton Martin Schweigaard) and the Uppsala Philosophy (Den Skandinaviske Realism), as variously mediated and re-interpreted by Alf Ross. As years went by, the Nordic Realism was fascinated by the Frirettsskole and contaminated by a Norwegian normativistic Idealism, Idealism which took the practice of human rights in special account.
The manuscript points out important lines for further investigations as to the relation between the “realisms” on the one hand and the promotion and practice of human rights within Scandinavian area on the other.
The work contains the preface of Svein Eng, Ordinary Professor at the University of Oslo.
