La certeza del Derecho. Flavio López de Oñate [Texto en inglés]

María del Carmen Amaya Galván
Elena Sáez Arjona

Abstract

This is the republication of the translation into Spanish of the classical work by the legal philosopher Flavio López de Oñate, who criticizes government agencies behind which there are legal scholars and intellectuals who believe the State should legislate over a larger and larger number of subjects and realities.

Key words: Flavio López de Oñate, Certainty of Law, Legislator, Social Law, Social Justice.

Texto

Comares publishing house in Granada gives us the opportunity to read a book to illuminate our reflection upon the certainty of Law.

The book’s main idea is summarized as the certainty of law is not abstract, general or schematic but rather particular and specific.

The essay articulates a research line following this structure: firstly, the speculative conception of Law as a certainty, and secondly, the establishing of current Law crisis as a crisis of certainty.

According to Flavio López de Oñate, justice becomes a certainty as a consequence of action and as a principle at the origins of Law.

The contemporary world crisis is essentially a spiritual crisis which accommodates despair, anguish, loneliness and the feeling of individual responsibility.

The essay ends with a reflection on certainty as specific Law ethics and the value of legality and the ethical State.

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