FOR AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTION OF LEGAL THEORY

Abstract

The author briefly explains the epistemological lines and methodological principles of the theory he develops in Principia iuris. Teoria del diritto e della democracia. The author has been working on this subject from the 1960s and in this article he briefly sets out the method adopted,  the object or universe  of the theoretical  discourse  and the aims pursued by his theory. This theory is articulated  in two parts: the theory of law developed using a axiomatic  method  and the theory of constitutional  democracy, which is an empirical  and normative interpretation  of the former, both connected by the isomorphic relationship that joins democracy  and the constitutional  paradigm of the rule of law.