When Claims for Justice Become Rhetorical Statements. A Comparative Analysis Between Alasdair MacIntyre’s Philosophical Proposal and Gregorio Robles’ Communicational Theory of Law
摘要
This chapter addresses two purposes to justice that are incardinated in the pragmatic dimension of language. I am referring, on the one hand, to the idea of justice supported by the Scottish philosopher and sociologist Alasdair MacIntyre, in the intellectual period in which he wrote two of his best-known monographs: After virtue (1981) and Whose Justice? Which Rationality? (1987); and, on the other, to the conception of justice promoted by Professor Gregorio Robles, from the three volumes of his Communicational Theory of Law (whose first editions date from 1998, 2015, and 2021, respectively). Both academic contributions come from different—although interrelated—epistemological traditions, such as Moral Philosophy and Political Philosophy—in the case of the Scottish philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre-, and from Law Theory and Philosophy of Law—if we refer to Spanish Professor Gregorio Robles. The thesis of this contribution defends that both MacIntyre’s purpose and Robles’ Communicational Theory of Law can be compatible with the subsumption of justice in a certain rhetorical construct, although endowed with great scope and relevance, both in academia and in political action.