Nr. 2/2018PAOLA B. HELZEL Some considerations on the ethicality of separating law and morality
Nr. 1/2011VASCO FRONZONI L’onda “verde” nel mondo islamico, tra tutela dei diritti umani e ribellione. L’O.N.U. e il ruolo della U.E.
Summary:
1. Foreword: a question that is still topical - 2. Of the sacred and the profane: the unfinished business of secularization - 3. Translations and concealments - 4. The Logos at the time of secularization - 5. Symbols and bindings - 6. Conclusion: symbolic and operational nature of law: 'bind' and 'un-bind'
ABSTRACT
What is at stake here is the operative nature of law. The latter, in fact, as has been said, is characterized by being a social reality 'instituted' through the use of images, signs and formulas that take on a purely 'symbolic' value. Society itself is therefore transformed and organized through the use of law, which thus reveals its operative nature. The symbolic function of legal images refers to the establishment of a relationship of 'meaning' between them and the 'thing', i.e. the social reality to be organized and transformed, according to perspectives that Ratzinger and Habermas decline in different ways.
KEYWORDS
Ratzinger, Habermas, Logos, Sacred
