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(1994) Norms, values, and society, Dordrecht, Springer.
For Habermas, contrary to what the legal positivists and system theorists believe, law requires legitimation (and thus is dependent on the discourse of morality) in post-traditional societies too, even if no natural-law metaphysics satisfies that desideratum. Habermas is aware that neither the appeal to a classical "philosophy of subjectivity" nor a notion of "de-limited communication" is capable of supplying the necessary legitimation. In his book Faktizität und Geltung 1, it is this basic dilemma that constitutes the problem to which a "discourse theory of law" seeks the answer.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-2454-8_10
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Nagl, L. (1994)., (How) can law be legitimated?: Habermas, Rawls, Dworkin, in H. Pauer Studer (ed.), Norms, values, and society, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 131-142.
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