"Although only few have admitted it, not even the standard and seemingly uncontroversial demands for universality, consistency and coherence can be upheld in non-cognitivist philosophy. Thus we are deprived of a platform on which to take a critical stance, and simply have to accept the given as it is. Legal non-cognitivism slides easily into the decisionism of the leading legal theorist of the Third Reich, Carl Schmitt."
Non-cognitivism

January 1, 1970

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