The Nature and Concept of Law in the Eyes of Rodríguez-Blanco. A Naturalistic Analysis of Her Methodological Proposal

Abstract

On Tracing Finnis’s criticism of Hart’s Internal Point of View: Instability and the ‘Point’ of Human Action in Law, the philosopher Verónica Rodríguez-Blanco continues the development of her conception of the nature and concept of law, deepening the necessary methodology to solve these issues. Most of the text I present below is dedicated to reconstructing Rodríguez-Blanco’s ideas on these fundamental issues and articulating her ideas with the metatheory of scientific concepts and several of its central methodological problems. All this also allows me to state some critics against the possibility that the methodology of Rodríguez-Blanco to identify the concept of Law provides epistemologically relevant reasons to support that the concept thus identified presents the nature of the Law.